Travel-stimulated entrepreneurial migration involves the movement of existing and potential businesses to a region by entrepreneurs who first visited it while on pleasure or business travel. The incidence of travel-stimulated entrepreneurship is examined within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. These pleasure and business travel-stimulated entrepreneurs are compared with native-Montana entrepreneurs regarding types of businesses they operate and their business location values. The findings indicate that travel-stimulated entrepreneurial migration contributes to business formation and diversity of firms competing in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The concept of travel-stimulated entrepreneurial migration is discussed with respect to conversion studies, economic impact models, and the tourism destination life-cycle model.
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