Purpose – This paper's aim is to help hospitality management executives and graduate students to understand and to develop marketing expertise in the small hotel sector. Design/methodology/approach – Case studies for three hotels illustrate some major marketing challenges for the small hotel...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of marketing in small hotels specifically, and, more generally, to the area of SME or entrepreneurial marketing. Design/methodology/approach – A deductive‐inductive approach based on interviews with 15 small hotel...