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Innovation as a success factor in tourism

Empirical evidence from western Austrian cable-car companies

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ID13430530
AuthorsMarius Mayer (0000-0002-9725-4677, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume63
Issue2
Pages123-139
Publication date2009-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueErdkunde (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0014-0015 • E-ISSN: 2702-5985
PublisherErdkunde (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.3112/erdkunde.2009.02.02
OpenAlexW2027333155
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

With demand for winter sport stagnating cable-car innovations implemented by tourism entrepreneurs can serve as a means of differentiating the product to meet new consumer preferences. Taking into consideration their nature, spatial diffusion and distribution, the most important cable-car innovations in Austria are exarnined within a systematic empiri cal analysis. The quantitative approach is supplemented by qualitative analysis of expert interviews. Cable-cars are suitable examples for innovations in tourism but they are not tourist innovations in the narrow sense. The early adopters of innova tions are able to realize certain advantages in contrast to laggards. But it should be clear that important investments in infra structure are not sufficient to meet increasing customer expectations. A modern cable-car system represents a constitutive basic factor for ski tourism which is taken for granted by the guests. In general, cable-cars today do not constitute a tourist attraction per se any more. Incremental innovations establish too quickly as nearly ubiquitous standards. But it is possible to generate added value for customers in form of innovative features provoked by especially innovative cable-cars. Zusammenfassung: Um bei stagnierender Wintersportnachfrage neuen Konsumentenpraferenzen zu gemigen, konnen von touristischen Unternehmern eingefuhrte Seilbahninnovationen zur Produktdifferenzierung dienen. Die bedeutendsten Seilbahninnovationen in Osterreich werden bezuglich ihres Wesens, ihrer raumlichen Ausbreitung und Verteilung systema tisch empirisch analysiert. Der quantitativ-statistische Ansatz wird durch die qualitative Analyse von Expertengesprachen erganzt. Seilbahnen sind geeignete Anschauungsobjekte fiir Innovationen im Tourismus, aber sie sind keine touristischen Innovationen im engeren Sinne. Die fruhen Adoptoren von Innovationen sind in der Lage gewisse komparative Wettbe werbsvorteile gegeniiber den Nachziiglern zu erlangen. Aber es sollte klar gemacht werden, dass bedeutende Investitionen in die Infrastruktur nicht ausreichend sind, um den steigenden Erwartungen der Kunden zu begegnen. Ein zeitgemaBes Seilbahnsystem stellt einen konstitutiven Basisfaktor fiir den Skitourismus dar, der von den Gasten vorausgesetzt wird. Heutzutage stellen Seilbahnen an sich keine touristische Attraktion mehr dar. Aber es ist moglich, durch innovative Ange botselemente besonders neuartiger Seilbahnen, Zusatznutzen fiir die Gaste zu generieren

Business · Business administration · Empirical evidence · Geography · Success factors · Tourism · Conferences and Exhibitions Management · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Wine Industry and Tourism

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