Title :
The construction of service innovation of Green Bed and Breakfast (B&B)
Author :
Wu, Tain-Fung ; Ming-Yu, Yang ; Chen, Shien-Liang
Author_Institution :
Department of Business Management, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
Abstract :
The concept of Bed and Breakfast (B&B) tourism has become much popular nowadays which results in the uneven quality on the drastic competition within the industry. The innovation of B&B service has brought out several significant qualities other than technologies such as idea of hospitality, customer interface and administrating system. Environmental friendly is a firm base of the B&B concept which combines with local cultures and customs to successfully achieve a perpetual environmental prosperity in Green tourism. In this study, three B&B owners with good performance in service innovation were chosen as the cases, and with qualitative case study, the four-structure relationship of green service were deeply analyzed for all three cases. The result showed the cases with the innovative interface and service concept alternately proceeded to develop a new market and presented an interweaving structure of innovation.
Keywords :
Economics; Green products; Industries; Innovation management; Technological innovation; Wineries; Bed and Breakfast (B&B) owners; Green management; innovative service; operation and management;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangkok, Thailand
DOI :
10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962638