Insurance uptake among small and medium-sized tourism and hospitality enterprises in a resource-scarce environment.

ABSTRACT: Small and medium-sized tourism and hospitality enterprises (SMTHEs) are often susceptible to various hazards, which result in risk concerns. Insurance is recognised as one of the risk management strategies, but evidence indicates that insurance uptake among SMTHEs has been low. Yet, researchers have hardly researched into the factors that influence insurance uptake among SMTHEs. Two-hundred and fifty (250) respondents were selected using a multi-stage sampling technique. Confirmatory factor analysis, multivariate logit and probit regression techniques were used to determine factors underlying SMTHEs' insurance uptake. Risk concerns, the firm's characteristics, the perceived benefits of insurance and other informal risk coping mechanisms, as well as insurance service provision concerns were

SUBMITTER: Dayour F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7141640 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature