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Table 4

Internal and external factors emerged from the qualitative content analysis

Themes	Codes	Description	No	%
Internal factors	Business dimension	- Small and micro business dimension (Reinhold et al., 2019)	3	20
	Skills and knowledge	- Re-skilling of employees to innovate BMI for sustainability (Dias et al., 2020; Freytag and Hjalager, 2021)	7	47
	Skills and knowledge	- Knowledge of specific conditions of small villages and tourism sector (own elaboration)	14	93
	Entrepreneurial Intentionality and mental model Time Sustainable tourism culture and responsible behaviours	- Perception and exploitation of new business opportunities (Souto, 2015)	15	100
		- Time awareness and future-oriented temporal perspective of entrepreneurs (own elaboration)	14	93
		- Firms' values and behaviours attentive to socioeconomic and environmental issues (Paniccia and Baiocco, 2020)	15	100
External factors	Policies, incentives, subsides	- Policies, incentives, subsides supporting new entrepreneurial opportunities (Hjalager and Madsen, 2018)	9	60
	Digital technologies	- Digital technologies supporting new business models (Pappas et al., 2021)	5	33
	Tourism demand Skills and knowledge Time Supply chain	- Growing demand for participation and immersion in authentic contexts (Hjalager and Madsen, 2018)	13	87
		- Human resources with capabilities required by widespread hotels' value proposition (own elaboration)	14	93
		- Time awareness and future-oriented temporal perspective of epolicymakers (own elaboration)	14	93
		- Supply chain relationship (own elaboration)	15	100
	Natural and cultural resource setting Climate change	- Availability of unique cultural and historic resource (own elaboration)	15	100
	Natural and cultural resource setting Climate change	- Climate variability that challenges traditional ways of doing business (Valdivia and Barbieri, 2014)	0	0%

Themes	Codes	Description	No	%
Internal factors	Business dimension	- Small and micro business dimension (Reinhold et al., 2019)	3	20
	Skills and knowledge	- Re-skilling of employees to innovate BMI for sustainability (Dias et al., 2020; Freytag and Hjalager, 2021)	7	47
	Skills and knowledge	- Knowledge of specific conditions of small villages and tourism sector (own elaboration)	14	93
	Entrepreneurial Intentionality and mental modelTimeSustainable tourism culture and responsible behaviours	- Perception and exploitation of new business opportunities (Souto, 2015)	15	100
		- Time awareness and future-oriented temporal perspective of entrepreneurs (own elaboration)	14	93
		- Firms' values and behaviours attentive to socioeconomic and environmental issues (Paniccia and Baiocco, 2020)	15	100
External factors	Policies, incentives, subsides	- Policies, incentives, subsides supporting new entrepreneurial opportunities (Hjalager and Madsen, 2018)	9	60
	Digital technologies	- Digital technologies supporting new business models (Pappas et al., 2021)	5	33
	Tourism demandSkills and knowledgeTimeSupply chain	- Growing demand for participation and immersion in authentic contexts (Hjalager and Madsen, 2018)	13	87
		- Human resources with capabilities required by widespread hotels' value proposition (own elaboration)	14	93
		- Time awareness and future-oriented temporal perspective of epolicymakers (own elaboration)	14	93
		- Supply chain relationship (own elaboration)	15	100
	Natural and cultural resource settingClimate change	- Availability of unique cultural and historic resource (own elaboration)	15	100
	Natural and cultural resource settingClimate change	- Climate variability that challenges traditional ways of doing business (Valdivia and Barbieri, 2014)	0	0%

Source(s): Own elaboration; Table by authors