Festival and Event Tourism Impacts

Festival and Event Tourism Impacts provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the multi-faceted impacts that festival and events have on a host community, whether positive or negative, and offers recommendations for communities for the successful management of this kind of tourism.

Opening chapters define festival and event tourism impact concepts utilized in the field and their evolution throughout the years, followed by an exploration of the current issues facing communities. The second part discusses sustainability and environmental issues that affect destinations and communities as a result of festival and event impacts. Subsequent chapters outline further impacts and finally address cutting-edge event tourism development and impact management strategies and considerations such as innovative management approaches, sustainability, and social responsibility, for example, and identify future trends and issues within a multidisciplinary global perspective. A variety of geographical locations are exemplified throughout as well as a range of diverse event types including the Formula One Grand Prix in Monaco, Pope Francis’ visit to Mauritius in 2019, and the 29th Summer Universiade in Taiwan, among many others.

Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of highly regarded academics from around the world, this will be of great interest to all upper-level students and researchers in Tourism, Hospitality, Events, and related fields.

Dogan Gursoy, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Hospitality Business Management at Washington State University, USA, and a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Tourism and Hospitality at University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interest focuses on services management, hospitality and tourism marketing, tourist behavior, travelers' information search behavior, community support for tourism development, cross-cultural studies, consumer behavior, involvement, and generational leadership.

Robin Nunkoo, PhD, is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law and Management at the University of Mauritius; a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; an Adjunct Professor at Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University, Australia; and a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is the associate editor for Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management, and Tourism Review. He has published widely in leading journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Journal of Travel Research, European Business Review, and Government Information Quarterly and has edited books on research methods and tourism planning. He is an editorial board member of several leading journals. Robin has research interests in quantitative methods, public trust, sociology of knowledge, and sustainable tourism.

Medet Yolal, Ph.D. is Professor of Marketing in Faculty of Tourism at Anadolu University, Turkey, where he mainly teaches issues related to destination management and marketing, tourism marketing and consumer behavior. He has authored or co-authored several articles, book chapters and conference papers on hospitality marketing, consumer behavior, management of small and medium sized enterprises in tourism, and event management. His research interests mainly focus on tourism marketing, consumer behavior, tourist experience, event management, tourism development and quality of life research in tourism.