Koh, Khoon Y.2024-01-052024-01-052014https://thuvienso.hoasen.edu.vn/handle/123456789/14839Journal of Travel and Tourism Research, Spring-Fall 2014The continuous birthing of touristic enterprises contributes to an area’s economic vitality and socio-cultural vibrancy. Thus theoretical, empirical, and/or experiential information about how touristic enterprises are created would seem valuable. This study sought to empirically determine the extent of congruency between a conceptual model of the tourism entrepreneurial process and the actual experiences of a sample of tourism entrepreneurs in CT, USA. The findings from fifty three tourism entrepreneurs indicated a moderately high level of concordance (82.7%) between the conceptual model and the field data. If a “personological” factor was added, the model would better account for behavioral variation across individuals and situations. Advice for aspiring tourism entrepreneurs was also provided by the study sample.enTourism entrepreneurship, tourism entrepreneurial processArticle