Events and Festivals: Current Trends and Issues.

Martin Robertson, Elspeth Frew

ISBN 10: 0415449189 / ISBN 13: 9780415449182

Published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2008

About this Item

First printing. Hardcover. Pp. ix, 138. English text in double columns. A new and immaculate copy.

Seller Inventory # MFR1454

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Events and Festivals: Current Trends and Issues.
• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415449189
• ISBN 13: 9780415449182
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 19.5W x 25H x 1.5D centimeters 19.5 centimeters width by 25 centimeters height by 1.5 centimeters depth
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction
  • Academic

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Synopsis

Events and festivals have an increasingly vital role in our leisure lifestyles. We recognize them as part of our lives. For some, they are a very significant part of our lives.

The network of festivals and events that either adorn the world now, or are planned for the future, can both serve to motivate new visits as well as enhance the lives of the people who live in – or near – the host area. They are also dynamos of cultural development, of sport knowledge and excellence and sophisticated consumption. Such dynamic outputs require dynamic inputs. This book looks at different event and festival cases and forwards separate and current managerial implications and responses to these, with reference to the UK, America and Australia.

Both up-to-date and forward thinking, the managerial themes addressed are: Creative Management, Festival and Event audience development, Culture and Community, Event and Festival evaluation. Festival and event types include sport events, art festivals, community events, live music and culinary extravaganza.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Managing Leisure: An International Journal.

About the Author

Martin Robertson is a lecturer in Tourism Management and a committee member of the Centre of Festival and Event Management in the School of Marketing, Tourism and Languages, Napier University Business School, Edinburgh. Martin’s research is applied to sport events and festivals, with particular focus on the areas of brand narrative, and the analysis of economic and social impact.

Elspeth Frew is a senior lecturer in Tourism Management at the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management, LaTrobe University, Australia. Elspeth’s research is in cultural tourism, with particular focus on festival and attraction management, industrial tourism and personality and tourism.