This paper examines event tourism as a field of study and area of professional practice
updating the previous review article published in 2008. In this substantially extended review …

This article reviews 'event tourism'as both professional practice and a field of academic
study. The origins and evolution of research on event tourism are pinpointed through both …

The outbreak of COVID-19 has negatively impacted the event industry, while offering it
opportunities to reinvent itself. Reviewing some of Getz (2012) futurist thoughts, is part of this …

This paper extends the Ritchie, Crouch (2000) model on destination competitiveness by
introducing a set of sustainability indicators and testing their role in explaining the …

Processes of globalization, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed
events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. Events offer the potential to achieve …

Event Studies is the only book devoted to developing knowledge and theory about planned
events. It focuses on event planning and management, outcomes, the experience of events …

This revised and updated edition reflects the changes that have taken place within the field
of leisure and recreation management in recent years. Issues such as social inclusion …

Since the 1990s Europe and other continents have been organising a significantly larger
number of festivals with the objective of stimulating tourism and exploiting potential …

Welcome to the fifth edition of Tourism: A Modern Synthesis, which has been revised to meet
the needs of the reader after extensive feedback from readers, adopters, students and …

The tourism destination, intended as the location of tourism structures and services as well
as the place where travelers' needs are fulfilled, is the core of the tourism system. Usually, a …