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 …

Gastronomy tourism experiences are growing in the tourism industry, and there has been an
increase in the number of tourists that travel primarily to experience food and related culture …

Given that brand meanings are socially constructed and culturally dependent, we advocate
that a destination branding strategy should begin by understanding what constitutes sense …

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 …

Seasonality is a protracted problem for the tourism sector due to the uneven nature of
demand and the relatively fixed nature of the supply of capacity and resources, particularly …

This book critically explores sport-related tourism drawing on the fields of sport
management, the sociology of sport, consumer behaviour, sports marketing, economic …

The study of festivals and events is now an important and prolific area of tourism research
enquiry. Festivals and events have flourished in recent decades and interest in …

This study shed new light on the concept of nostalgia in sport tourism by quantitatively
testing how nostalgia was associated with spectator types, age, and past experience. It also …

The increase in individual sports activities is stimulating the rise of sport-related forms of
vacationing. This is further intensified by tourists seeking authentic experiences in host …

Recent work on sport events has argued that host governments should do more to leverage
events in order to obtain and spread the benefits. This study uses ethnographic methods to …