Introduction

Tourism development provides an avenue for overall economic development and a boost for local entrepreneurship. As a result, the encouragement of entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism development has emerged as core areas for policy support and donorassisted funding across both developed and the developing world. The academic contribution to identifying and understanding a range of issues critical to tourism entrepreneurship and tourism development has remained a largely neglected area for research. To date the links between tourism and entrepreneurship, with a few exceptions, remain divergent themes that are not addressed in any way which draws upon the inherent synergies between the two areas.