This book provides a varied collection of recent research relating to small
businesses in tourism. In doing so it reflects the eclecticism of interest and
method associated with this under-researched and under-theorised area of
investigation. Topics range from the potential contribution of small firms to
achieving social or economic goals to understanding more about business
performance and growth. As is common in tourism research, disciplinary
boundaries are routinely transgressed in the interests of gaining greater
illumination. Insights from a variety of countries are offered, sometimes as a
result of trans-national collaboration initiated specifically for this book.