Events Tourism (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Insights and Contemporary Perspectives
Redaktion: Cuffy, Violet V.; Coetzee, Willem J. L.; Bakas, Fiona

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000215861
• Artikelnr.: 60199309

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Fundamental concepts 1. Events tourism: an overview PART II
Contemporary perspectives 2. Events as Visitor Attractions in Destination
Shopping Centres 3. Managing the event workforce: analysing the
heterogeneity of job experiences 4. User-generated events in tourism: a new
must-not-miss phenomenon 5. Undocumented! Small events of rural
hinterlands, South Africa 6. Entrepreneurship development and Slow Food
events 7. Riding wanderlust: the case of motorcycle events PART III
Regeneration, displacement and planning frameworks 8. Quake aftermath and
conference industry transformation, Christchurch 9. A critical view on
mega-events economic impacts studies: Milan 2015 and beyond 10. Destination
Israel and Malawi wanderlusts 11. City rebranding, social discontent and
bidding for cultural events 12. MICE tourism development in Ethiopia PART
IV The future of events tourism 13. Reshaping metropolitan cities and
creative tourism through artists' vision 14. Counterculture and the future
of music festivals and events 15. Events tourism: a critical debate for the
21st century