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AIRTH Encyclopedia of Innovation in Tourism and Hospitality

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The source of tourism innovation-related knowledge you need in your classroom or your organization. Theoretical summaries help students, teachers, and practitioners understand theoretical backgrounds of innovation. Success/failure business cases illuminate the path for all of us!

TABLE OF CONTENTS*

* Work in constant progress. You are invited to contribute.

HISTORY AND FUTURE OF INNOVATION

BUSINESS INNOVATION CASES

Human innovations and tourism (interactive timeline)

Table of disruptive technologies & innovation (in tourism)

AIRTH's take on 2021 signs of change

AIRTH's take on 2020 travel trends

FOUNDATIONS - INNOVATION

Diffusion of innovation theory

Disruptive innovation

Schumpeter’s theory of economic development

The process of innovation

The evaluation of innovation

FOUNDATIONS - DESIGN

Four ways that design can contribute to tourism innovation

Building a team of innovative problem-solvers (video)

Designing artificial intelligence (and everything else)

Lean Startup method

Lean Startup's role in corporate open innovation (video)

Learning from innovation failure in tourism (video)

Management of common risks in tourism innovation (video)

Why do we need prototypes in tourism?

Pro & Amateur Videos in Innovation Marketing Strategies

ADVANCED INNOVATION TOPICS

Destination renewal

Digital transformation in tourism

Entrepreneurship - a relational approach

Forest tourism

Forest innovation potentials

Forest tourism’s need for innovation-friendly legislation

Innovation newness

Knowledge redundancy in collaboration networks

Revenue management in hotel industry and innovation

Servant leadership

Social sustainability gaps in tourism

Smart tourism

The Covid-19 pandemic and path to recovery and innovation

Tourism innovations through big data analytics

CONFERENCES

Selected N29 2021 conference presentations

Selected ENTER/AIRTH 2020 conference presentations

Selected AIRTH 2019 conference presentations

AUSTRIA

Socially run hotel

DENMARK

Shower device nudging hotel guests to save water

ISRAEL

Video-based trip planner

ITALY

Albergo Diffuso, from disaster to innovation

Fair(er) home sharing

JAPAN

Regional revitalization through contemporary art

Robot-assisted low-cost hotel

NETHERLANDS

Connected-community hotel

Doing-good hotel brand

SLOVENIA

Beer fountain

Green certification scheme

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SPAIN

Underwater museum

World's first underwater wine cellar

SWEDEN

Ice hotel

TURKEY

Hotel for children

UAE

Indoor ski resort and snow park

USA

Bringing automation to specialty coffee

Holistic revitalization of rural towns

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