How do lifestyle hospitality and tourism entrepreneurs manage their work-life balance? |
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| Institution: | 1. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Economic and Business Administration Department (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Spain;2. Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Business Administration Department (Seville-Córdoba), Spain;3. Escuela Universitaria de Turismo de Lanzarote adscrita a la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, School of Tourism of Lanzarote (Lanzarote), Spain;4. Universidad Loyola Andalucía, Economics Department (Seville-Córdoba), Spain |
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| Abstract: | This study uses border theory to explore how lifestyle hospitality and tourism entrepreneurs manage their work-life balance. This research utilizes in-depth interviews and observations from Dali and Lijiang, China. Three types of findings emerged. First, for lifestyle entrepreneurs, work and personal life are not divided; business is considered a style of living, not work. Second, lifestyle entrepreneurs’ boundary management tactics include temporal tactics, physical tactics, and psychological tactics. Third, the factors influencing the work-life balance of lifestyle entrepreneurs include personal factors and the contextual factors related to tourism destinations. This paper contributes to border theory by indicating how an individual’s psychological borders have a decisive effect on work-life balance perception, and how both the tourism and Chinese contexts moderate the psychological borders of work-life balance to some extent. |
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| Keywords: | Work-life balance Lifestyle hospitality and tourism entrepreneur Boundary Self-employment Flexibility |
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