Int. J. Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2016 151 Copyright © 2016 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Tourism supply chain agility: an empirical examination using resource-based view Santanu Mandal* Department of Operations & IT, IBS Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 501203, India Email: shaan.nitw@gmail.com *Corresponding author Souvik Roy and G. Amar Raju Department of Marketing, IBS Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 501203, India Email: souvik933@gmail.com Email: amar.raju@ibsindia.org Abstract: Tourism supply chains need to be agile, i.e. they should be in a position to respond in a speedy manner to customer’s requirements. Hence we argue in this study using resource-based view that firms in tourism supply chains will use their variable, renewable, inimitable and non-substitutable (VRIN) resources and non-VRIN resources to develop tourism supply chain agility. Further, we posit such tourism supply chain agility as a dynamic capability that may impart competitive advantage. Perceptual data were gathered from different entities in tourism supply chains and were analysed using PLS. Empirical findings based on 233 complete responses suggest VRIN and non-VRIN resources to as significant enablers of tourism supply chain agility and such a capability results in a competitive advantage for the associated supply chains. Further, our study revealed perceived environmental dynamism as a dominant moderator influencing the proposed linkages among resources and tourism supply chain agility. Keywords: tourism supply chain; agility; environmental dynamism; VRIN resources; competitive advantage. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Mandal, S., Roy, S. and Amar Raju, G. (2016) ‘Tourism supply chain agility: an empirical examination using resource-based view’, Int. J. Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.151–173. Biographical notes: Santanu Mandal is currently the Assistant Professor at IBS Hyderabad in the Department of Operations & IT. He has been the Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Management Science, Spears School of Business Under Oklahoma State University. His research interests typically include but not limited to supply chain management, operations management, tourism supply chains and customer relationship management.