The relationship between innovation management and innovative organizational culture in hotel organizations: A research in Alanya

Having examined the related literature, it has been seen that there is a very limited number of scientific study in the field of tourism industry and especially innovation management in hotel enterprises, although there are a lot of scientific study in the field of innovation management which is an important management approach in terms of business. It has been observed that the implemented subject based on the current study on tourism knowledge field contained either theoretical data or the theoretical data was configured by means of empirical study. The number of the scientific studies which contain the samples of innovation management in tourism sector is relatively low. Moreover scientific studies which are made in tourism sector about innovation management can be observed in foreign sources whereas related scientific studies in the appropriate field is gaining value gradually and increasing in our country.In this thesis, innovative management enforcement in hotel enterprises has been specified and innovative management cultural structure has been tried to be displayed. In addition to being the contribution of science to the study, the desire to become useful for managers and investors in the tourism and hotel management from the theoretical framework with the idea of tourism and hotel businesses in many national and international examples of innovative practice in the study were compiled and these samples were given place in this thesis. If evaluated in terms of this feature which makes a difference, this thesis has the characteristics of being unique.With the assistance of the work conducted, it has been observed that the management of innovation was applied and the organizational culture structure existed in hotel management. Dimensions of the success factors of innovation management products and services previously found no effect on the structure of an innovative organizational culture. While the process- related dimensions and market- related dimensions are effective in formation and continutiy in innovative organizational culture, it has been determined that the biggest effect was achieved by the dimensions of organization.