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Purpose: This paper aims to provide answers to the question: "What are the key innovative strategies needed for future tourism in the world?" At the outset, this paper redefines the word "innovation" in the context of the hospitality and tourism industry. It then captures the essence of 13 proceeding papers on innovative initiatives in 17 countries and presents concluding remarks to this Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) theme issue on innovation (v. 11 n. 2, 2019). Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws from a wide spectrum of innovation types, concepts, strategies, suggestions and solutions written by 24 authors, who cumulatively have valuable and diverse experience in managing, operating, teaching, researching and consulting on innovation. Findings: Innovation is relevant to all macro- and micro-level aspects of all industries. In conclusion, to identify common elements in all 13 papers, the author presents a shorter definition: "Innovation is the art of implementing new ideas to improve productivity, products and services, while enhancing customer satisfaction, revenues and profitability". In addition, he emphasizes that innovation needs vision, mission and passion! Research limitations/implications: This research contributes to the emerging research theme of innovation in the hospitality and tourism industry and extends/re-defines the word: "innovation". Practical implications: There are significant practical implications in terms of industry approaches to use innovative strategies across the world. Originality/value: Readers who are interested in international best practices of hospitality and tourism would benefit from this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: This paper aims to profile the Worldwide hospitality and Tourism Themes (WHATT) issue "What are the key innovative strategies needed for future tourism in the world?", with reference to the experiences of the theme editor and writing team. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses structured questions to enable the theme editor to reflect on the rationale for the theme issue question, the starting point, the selection of the writing team and material and the editorial process. Findings: This paper provides a framework to facilitate discussions between international scholars in hospitality and tourism to re-define a buzzword. For this theme issue, the buzzword was "innovation". Summaries of 13 papers written on innovative strategies in hospitality and tourism around the world were then analysed to fine-tune the definition. Practical implications: The theme issue outcomes provide lines of enquiry for others to explore and reinforce the value of WHATT's approach to collaborative research and writing. Originality/value: The collaborative work reported in this theme issue offers a unified but contrarian response to the theme's strategic question. Taken together, the collection of articles provides a detailed picture of the key innovative strategies needed for future tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose -- The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is a global divergence or convergence with regard to the ethics of corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach -- Regional perspectives on the ethics of corporate governance from four regions, namely, Africa, Asia, Continental Europe and North America are first briefly introduced and characterized in terms of distinctions between the ethics of governance and the governance of ethics, internal and external corporate governance, and shareholder and stakeholder orientations to corporate governance. Thereafter these regional perspectives are compared in order to determine whether there is a global divergence or convergence with regard to the ethics of corporate governance amongst these four regions of the world. Findings -- There are four factors that potentially may have an impact on the ethics of corporate governance, namely, patterns of ownership, the prevailing view of the role of the firm in a society, cultural and societal norms, and socio-political priorities. The influence of these factors makes a global convergence on the ethics of corporate governance neither likely nor desirable. Research limitations/implications -- Not all regions of the world were included in this comparative study. Regions that need to be included in future studies are Latin America, Central Asia and the Middle East. Practical implications -- The main finding, namely, that a global convergence on the ethics of corporate governance is neither likely nor desirable, should be taken into consideration by promoters of global corporate governance standards. Originality/value -- Based on regional perspectives from Africa, Asia, Continental Europe and North America, the paper provides a global perspective on the question of whether there is global divergence or convergence with regard to the ethics of corporate governance amongst these four regions of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]