130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

Events are increasingly used instrumentally to achieve goals of society such as cultural development, destination branding or economic development. Event impacts are, however, routinely measured from a purely economic perspective. Event Impact fills an important niche and a void in the literature on events by taking a holistic approach, incorporating issues like value creation, experiential... Read more

Editorial

  1. Subjects and objects of event impact analysis
    John Armbrecht and Tommy D. Andersson
  2. Articles

  3. Economic evaluation of special events: Reconciling economic impact and cost–benefit analysis
    Larry Dwyer, Leo Jago, Peter Forsyth
  4. Estimating and comparing demand for a music event using stated choice and actual visitor behaviour data
    Tobias Heldt and Reza Mortazavi
  5. Can major sport events attract tourists? A study of media information and explicit memory
    Arne M. Ulvnes and Harry Arne Solberg
  6. Triple impact assessments of the 2013 European athletics indoor championship in Gothenburg
    Tommy D. Andersson, John Armbrecht and Erik Lundberg
  7. Bidding for Success? Impacts of the European Capital of Culture Bid
    Greg Richards, Lénia Marques
  8. Likert scale versus Q-table measures – a comparison of host community perceptions of a film festival
    Michaela Havlíková
  9. Participants’ benefits from visiting a food festival – the case of the Stavanger food festival (Gladmatfestivalen)
    Ambassador Rezene Meretse, Reidar J. Mykletun and Kari Einarsen

Biography

John Armbrecht, PhD, is Head of the Centre for Tourism and researcher at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University, Sweden. He received his PhD in marketing and has mainly published research on experiential and non-use values within areas like cultural tourism, cultural economics and event and festival economics.

Tommy D. Andersson, PhD, is a Senior Professor in Tourism and Hospitality Management at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and Professor II at Molde University College, Norway. He received his PhD in managerial economics and has been interested in economic impact analysis, event management and cost–benefit analysis. Most of his publications are in the area of event research and food tourism research.