The Value of Events (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lundberg, Erik; Getz, Donald; Andersson, Tommy D.; Armbrecht, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Value of Events is the first book to comprehensively deal with the subject of value creation and measurement, as opposed to impact assessment and programme evaluation. Written by an international group of academics with expertise in the relevant fields of events, tourism, environment, sport and culture, it offers new insight into events and their relationship to sustainability, social responsibility, cultural and social value. Aimed at all students pursuing degrees in fields where planned events are important topics, The Value of Events offers the most comprehensive overview of event value to date.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317193234
• Artikelnr.: 48410717

Autorenporträt

John Armbrecht, PhD, is Head of the Centre for Tourism and Researcher at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his PhD in marketing and has mainly published research on experiential and non-use values within areas like cultural tourism, cultural economics and event and festival economics. Erik Lundberg, PhD, is a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for tourism in the School of Economics, Business and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his PhD in 2014. In his thesis, he describes and analyses tourism and event impacts from a sustainable development perspective. He has published in journals such as Tourism Man agement, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management and International Journal of Event and Festival Management. Tommy D. Andersson, PhD, is Senior Professor in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Professor II at Molde University College, Norway. He received his PhD in managerial economics and has been interested in economic impact analysis, event management and cost-benefit analysis. Most of his publications are in the area of event research and food tourism research. Donald Getz is Professor Emeritus, the University of Calgary, Canada, and is affiliated with Linnaeus University in Sweden. He is author of numerous articles on events, and the books Event Tourism (2013) and Event Studies (Routledge, 3rd edn,, 2016, co-authored with Stephen Page). Professor Getz acts as a management consultant to universities, cities and destinations in the fields of tourism and events, and participates in major research and development projects.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Preface
1. Definitions and meanings of value
Donald Getz, Tommy D. Andersson, John Armbrecht and Erik Lundberg
2. The value of events and festivals in the age of austerity
Emma Wood
Part I Value creation of events
3. Exploring consumers' value co-creation in a festival context using a
socio-cultural lens
Sandhiya Goolaup and Lena Mossberg
4. Successful event-destination collaboration through superior experience
value for visitors
Nina K. Prebensen
5. Creating network value: the Barcelona Sónar Festival as a global events
hub
Greg Richards and Alba ColomboPart II Assessing the value of events
6. The Use and non-use values of events: a conceptual framework
Tommy D. Andersson, John Armbrecht and Erik Lundberg
7. Event evaluation: approaches and new challenges
Larry Dwyer and Peter Forsyth
8. Economic valuation of events: combining methods based on revealed,
stated and subjective preference data
Reza Mortazavi and Tobias Heldt
9. Valuing the inspirational impacts of major sports events
Girish Ramchandani, Richard Coleman, Larissa Davies, Simon Shibli and Jerry
Bingham
10. Understanding the value of events for families, and the impact upon
their quality of life
Raphaela Stadler and Allan JepsonPart III Conclusions
11. A synthesis, summaries and some ontological propositions
Donald Getz, Tommy D. Andersson, John Armbrecht and Erik Lundberg
Index