sentences:  In practice, the business partner model can be broadened to include members of any business function, for example, Finance, IT, HR, Legal, External Relations, who act as a connector, linking their function with business units to ensure that the technical, or functional, expertise they have to offer is placed within the real and current concerns of the business to create value.The mission of business partnering and the key-aspects of the discipline have been developed recently in the tourism field.The mission of business partnering (for tourism) consists in "creating, organizing, developing and enforcing "operative" (short-term), "tactical" (medium-term) and "strategic" (long-term) partnerships" (Droli, 2007).