The career interest I plan on exploring is small business ownership within the field of Hospitality Management.by Jassica Frazier
1. What are the challenges of women in small business in the hospitality field?
1.1. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship will have articles on the personal challenges, this is found in APUS Liabrary http://search.proquest.com/docview/208430506?accountid=8289
1.2. The challenges of gender in the small business indusrty. http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=97807008&site=ehost-live&scope=site
2. What are the economic challenges for the small business owners in a slow economic industry?
2.1. Harvard University has a paper on credit accsess on recovery. http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-004_09b1bf8b-eb2a-4e63-9c4e-0374f770856f.pdf
2.2. The Economics of Tourism Destinations book found in APUS Library is about the last decade and growing interest in tourism, it gives me insight into economics of tourism.http://lib.myilibrary.com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/Open.aspx?id=100960
3. What are the marketing challenges for the small business owners in the tourism & hospitality industry?
3.1. The type of sources needed for online marketing are at http://SCORE.COM
3.2. The types of standard marketing "offline Marketing" would be found in Articles in APUSLibary http://site.ebrary.com/lib/apus/detail.action?docID=10780733
4. What are the financial considerations for prospective small business owners in the hospitality field ?
4.1. http://SBA.GOV is a source for line's of credit.
4.2. The types of information needed to answer questions about crowd funding and other types of funding would be at http://USA.GOV and http://CA.GOV.
