New private tourism firms play a key role in promoting local and national wealth creation. Building upon insights from entrepreneurial motivation and human capital theories, in this study fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of longitudinal data was employed to identify the human capital pathways of 1182 entrepreneurs in Portugal engaged in tourism reporting high firm sales growth between 2008 and 2015. Two dimensions of entrepreneur human capital at firm start-up were found to be sufficient for high sales growth: a) Necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs with specific human capital industry experience relating to tourism, and b) Opportunity-based entrepreneurs with managerial experience.

新兴的私人旅游公司在促进当地和国家财富创造中起着关键作用。基于企业家动机和人力资本理论的见解，本研究采用纵向数据的模糊集定性比较分析来确定葡萄牙的1182名从事旅游业的企业家的人力资本路径，这些企业家在2008年至2015年期间报告了公司销售额的高增长。两个发现在公司刚成立时企业家人力资本的规模足以实现高销售增长：a）基于需求和机会的企业家，具有与旅游相关的特定人力资本行业经验，以及b）具有管理经验的基于机会的企业家。