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This innovative book takes seriously the ordinary activities of entrepreneurship and maps out new pathways for scholars to understand the nature, properties, and implications of studying practices for entrepreneurship studies. Entrepreneurship is neither an art nor a science, but a bundle of practices, as Peter Drucker once observed. Curiously however, academic research on entrepreneurship mostly abstracts away from practical activity. In contrast, Entrepreneurship As Practice takes ordinary activities of entrepreneurship seriously by mapping out new pathways for scholars to consider the everyday practices through which entrepreneurship occurs. Each chapter draws on contemporary theories of practice to illuminate the nature, properties, and implications of studying the practices of entrepreneurship. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.

Safety and security have emerged as key issues in the global tourism industry at the destination dimension, the sectoral dimension and for individual tourism businesses. The prevalence of crime, terrorism, cyber security threats, medical and physical risks arising from human activity and natural phenomena are influential factors in the choices tourists make for destinations and products. Safety is now widely regarded as the key determinant in consumer choices of destinations and tourism products including accommodation, airlines, land and sea transport brands, attractions or the decision to participate in or attend events. Brazil’s hosting of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was subject to extensive and often negative coverage media related to crisis and safety management. The two key issues of concern for visiting international athletes and their supporters were Brazil’s high crime rate and the risk of contracting the Zika virus. Since the turn of the 21st century, tourism safety has evolved from being a management imperative for specific sectors of the tourism industry to an holistic management issue for destinations and all sectors of the tourism industry.(Pizam & Mansfeld 2006, Tarlow 2014).