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By Ian Yeoman, Martin Robertson, Una McMahon - Beattie, Elisa Backer, Karen A. Smith
May 25, 2017
The growth of events and festivals has been significant over the last decade and a wide range of skills are essential to ensure those events are successful. This requirement has been instrumental in stimulating the creation of more tertiary education opportunities to develop events management...
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By Greg Richards, Lénia Marques, Karen Mein
May 24, 2017
Events are becoming more complex as their range of functions grows, as meeting places, creative spaces, economic catalysts, social drivers, community builders, image makers, business forums and network nodes. Effective design can produce more successful business models that can help to sustain ...
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By Tomas Pernecky, Michael Lück
May 24, 2017
The growth of the events industry brings with it concerns of sustainable management, the sharing of available resources, and ensuring that people and places are not over-exploited. While the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability have attracted a reasonable attention in the study ...
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By Allan Stewart Jepson, Alan Clarke
May 24, 2017
The development of the festival and event industry has seen large scale growth and extensive government support as a result of objectives to enhance and project the image of place and leverage positive sponsorship and regeneration opportunities. As we move deeper into austerity measures prompted by...
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By Greg Richards, Marisa de Brito, Linda Wilks
May 24, 2017
Social impacts are increasingly used as one of the main justifications for staging and funding events, and yet there is very little empirical evidence on the extent to which these impacts are realised by different kinds of events or in different settings. This timely volume fills this gap by being ...
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By Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost
May 24, 2017
Many events have evolved over centuries, drawing on local customs and conditions. However, as the world becomes increasingly globalised, traditional events and the identities they support are increasingly being challenged and rituals may be lost. Reacting against this trend towards homogeneity, ...
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By Erik Lundberg, John Armbrecht, Tommy D. Andersson, Donald Getz
May 10, 2017
The Value of Events fills an important niche in the literature on events, being the first book to comprehensively deal with the subject of value creation and measurement, as opposed to impact assessment and programme evaluation. Value creation and measurement is often done routinely from specific ...
By Karl Spracklen, Ian R. Lamond
June 03, 2016
Within events management, events are commonly categorised within two axes, size and content. Along the size axis events range between the small scale and local, through major events, which garner greater media interest, to internationally significant hallmark and mega events such as the Edinburgh ...
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By Tomas Pernecky
May 11, 2016
The recent proliferation of events as a subject of study in its own right has signalled the emergence of a new field – event studies. However, whilst the management-inspired notion of planned events, which strives for conceptual slenderness, may indeed be useful for event managers, the moment we ...
By Adi Weidenfeld, Richard Butler, Allan M. Williams
May 11, 2016
Both visitor attractions and events play pivotal roles in the appeal of tourism destination regions to visitors by virtue of being the main motivator of tourist trips and determining consumers’ choices. However, more recently visitor attractions have become more multifaceted, have proliferated and ...