Seminar “Las Cadenas de Valor Globales en el Turismo“, Dres. Isidoro Romero y Pilar Tejada, Universidad de Sevilla, 23 de enero 2015
Impartido por el Dr. Isidoro Romero, Prof. Titular y la Dra. Pilar Tejada, Prof.ª. Contratada Doctora, ambos de la Universidad de Sevilla.
The focus this seminar is examine the implications of the globalization of value chains for the role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the tourism industry.
In this seminar, the spekers propose a global value chains framework to examine the role and dynamic of small and medium sized tourism enterprises (SMEs), and the development prospects for countries within them. First, the spekers review literature about tourism’s contribution to development. Second, the current configuration of global value chains in tourism industry is analysed. Third, they put forward the hypothesis that how the GVC approach can be used to study the role that tourism SMEs may play in the present context of globalisation. This may be a new way of analyzing the tourism´s contribution to the economic development and in particular, a new tool for the recognition of the significance of SMEs.
