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 4th edition of this popular and well-cited text is now co-authored, and includes
significant changes from earlier texts. Presenting a comprehensive review of over a century …

An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural
preservation on the Internet and how “digital cultural memory” differs radically from print-era …

How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments,
sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play …

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 …

The nature and scope of festival studies is examined by compiling and analyzing a large-
scale literature review of 423 research articles published in the English-language scholarly …

Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the
sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Robert …

1 20 Richest people in the world (2008) 15 2 UK time-use survey, people aged 16 and over
24 3 US time-use, people aged 15 and over (2005) 25 4 Distribution of religious faith in …

We live in uncertain, challenging times, in which the issues of the nature and purpose of
leisure are more complex than they were thirty years ago. Old convictions about the capacity …

In this investigation, the serious leisure inventory and measure (SLIM) was developed from
convenience and target samples. The multidimensional framework of serious leisure …