Leadership for Innovation in Hospitality and Tourism: Integrative Literature Review

Service industry is a complex and competitive market, and companies are seeking a competitive advantage, such the leadership. The aim here was to find out which way the researches that address leadership for innovation in the tourism / hospitality / leisure industries are taking place. The study used an integrative review in the Scopus database with the <descriptors>, <innovation>, <tourism>, <hospitality>, <leisure>. Eleven articles were considered for analysis. The studies tend to be recent, and use to contemplate the Transformational Leadership theory. The leadership help the hospitality and tourism industries achieve innovation on working with the organization's environment, paying attention to human resources, dealing with problems characteristic of the service industry, and acting in the tourist destinations level. It is suggested that future research uses other databases, seize the opportunity of the gap in the leisure industry and other use other leadership theories.