Female Entrepreneurship and Marine TourismInnovative Practices on the Coastline

  1. Caamaño Franco, Iria 1
  2. Pérez García, Antonia 1
  3. Andrade Suárez, María 1
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01qckj285

Book:
Innovation and Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Community Tourism
  1. Rodrigues Soares Jakson Renner

Publisher: IGI Global

ISBN: 9781799858911

Year of publication: 2021

Pages: 172-190

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

Marine tourism activities represent an innovative proposal that, responding to the diversification needs of the professional fishing activity, provides a new alternative tourism product. The aim of this chapter is to analyse women's entrepreneurship in the frame of marine tourism as an innovative and territorial development dynamics that collaborate with other sectors (fishing-tourism, gastronomy, canning) promoting in turn a sustainable economy based on blue growth and development of endogenous resources. This exploratory and descriptive research intends to increase the tourist work carried out by women in coastal areas more and more public, highlighting and dignifying their role within the sector, as well as their contribution to tourism innovation and social and economic development. In order to meet the objectives, some secondary information with qualitative-quantitative data has been collected and primary information through a qualitative study by means of in-depth interviews to 10 entrepreneur women in the tourism field in Galicia (Spain).