Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this is the first
title in a new Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in
Tourism. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and
cutting-edge research in event tourism.
The origins of event tourism as a topic of serious academic
interest are comparatively recent. The subject is largely a postwar
development which began especially to unfold in the 1970s, not
least in response to a growing interest and recognition of the
potential value of events to economies, societies, and their
cultures, as well as to environmental regeneration. In part, the
continued evolution of the subject has arisen from the development
of convention and exhibition management as cognate areas but,
through time, policy-makers, planners, and destination managers
became aware of the potentially significant and wide role of events
in specific localities, ranging in scale from the Olympic Games to
community festivals.
Event tourism is now a vibrant and dynamic field of study and
research, and the sheer scale of the growth in its output makes
this Routledge collection especially timely. A wide range of
social-science journals have published material about event tourism
and this new Major Work makes available foundational pieces of
scholarship?as well as cutting-edge research?from these disparate,
and sometimes less accessible sources, as well as from the leading
UK, European, and North American tourism journals, and from other
hard-to-find publications.
As well as bringing together the key studies and journal
articles that have shaped serious thought about event tourism, the
collection will be welcomed as the first mapping of an area that to
date has lacked an interdisciplinary synthesis. The thematic
organization of the collection, together with the editors?
introductions and their commentaries on the collected texts, will
make sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts
that have informed event tourism, and will review the history of
the subject and the rise of its identity and research agenda. It is
an essential collection destined to be valued as a vital research
resource by all scholars and students of the subject.
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