1st Edition

Events Tourism Critical Insights and Contemporary Perspectives

Edited By Violet V. Cuffy, Fiona Bakas, Willem J. L. Coetzee Copyright 2021
286 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents critical insights and contemporary perspectives for exploring current trends, concerns and prospects of events tourism. It examines modern-day global issues facing the events and tourism industry, policymakers, researchers and academics to advance understanding of practice and development of theory. Organised in four parts, this book examines how events tourism is... Read more

PART I Fundamental concepts

1 Events tourism: an overview

Fiona Bakas, Willem J. L. Coetzee and Violet V. Cuffy

PART II Contemporary perspectives

2 Events as Visitor Attractions in Destination Shopping Centres

David Strafford

3 Managing the event workforce: analysing the heterogeneity of job experiences

Birgit Muskat and Judith Mair

4 User-generated events in tourism: a new must-not-miss phenomenon

Estela Marine-Roig, Eva Martin-Fuentes and Natalia Daries-Ramon

5 Undocumented! Small events of rural hinterlands, South Africa

Unathi Sonwabile Henama and Petrus Mfanampela Maphanga

6 Entrepreneurship development and Slow Food events

Burcin Kalabay Hatipoglu, Onno Anil, Saadet Memiş and Dilan Şahin

7 Riding wanderlust: the case of motorcycle events

Lucia Cicero

PART III Regeneration, displacement and planning frameworks

8 Quake aftermath and conference industry transformation, Christchurch

Abrar Faisal, Julia N. Albrecht and Willem J. L. Coetzee

9 A critical view on mega-events economic impacts studies: Milan 2015 and beyond

Jerome Massiani

10 Destination Israel and Malawi wanderlusts

James Malitoni Chilembwe

11 City rebranding, social discontent and bidding for cultural events

Daniel Barrera-Fernandez, Miguel Anxo Rodriguez-Gonzalez and Marco Hernandez-Escampa

12 MICE tourism development in Ethiopia

Gebeyaw Ambelu Degarege and Brent Lovelock

PART IV The future of events tourism

13 Reshaping metropolitan cities and creative tourism through artists’ vision

Silvia Grandi and Chiara Bernasconi

14 Counterculture and the future of music festivals and events

Daniel Wright

15 Events tourism: a critical debate for the 21st century

Violet V. Cuffy and Bipithalal Balakrishnan Nair

Biography

Violet V. Cuffy is a senior lecturer in events and tourism management at the University of Bedfordshire with a background in tourism consultancy. Violet is co-editor of Lifelong Learning for Tourism: An International Perspective and principal investigator of Arts Humanities Research Council grant on Dominica Creole heritage.

Fiona Bakas is a critical tourism researcher and part-time lecturer, with events industry experience in the conference sector. Fiona is currently working at Coimbra University, Portugal, as postdoctoral researcher on a nationwide project on creative tourism in rural areas and small cities, called CREATOUR.

Willem J. L. Coetzee is a senior lecturer in tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research theme is within the nexus of tourism, events and the SDGs, with a focus on mega and hallmark events, and tourism within water-stressed destinations.