Festivals are an expressive way to celebrate glorious heritage, culture and traditions. They are meant to rejoice special moments and emotions in our lives with our loved ones. They play an important role to add structure to our social lives, and connect us with our families and backgrounds. Celebrating events and festivals in our school has become an integral part of learning and building a st…
vents Feasibility and Development: From Strategy to Operations 2nd Edition utlines the best practice in event development and the global events sector. Tools and techniques from the first edition have been refined and expanded through their use in over 20 countries, including the USA, France, UAE, Malaysia and South Africa. These include strategy development and implementation, asset management…
Focusing on the role of event manager and their diverse facilitation responsibilities through each phase of the event planning process, the book is designed to encourage critical thinking, to help the reader to become an adaptable and capable manager ready to cope with the constantly evolving challenges of the contemporary events landscape. The book begins with an updated chapter on the types o…
The Routledge International Case Studies in Tourism Series is projected to fill in a gap in the existing textbook collections on tourism and its related subject fields. Despite the fact that most textbooks in the field contain cases mostly as end- of- chapter sections, they mainly embrace cases with in- class discussion questions listed in the end. Therefore, the execution of such case studies …
This fifth edition of Event Studies brings substantial revisions and a re-organisation. Some material has been reduced or removed, and a considerable amount of new material added. One new theme is quite evident, that being crisis management, recovery, and resilience – topics of global importance as a result of the pandemic and other contemporary crises that impact event studies. This book sta…
In this new edition, we have again been able to call on the resources of our global events industry professional and academic networks; from India, Australia, New Zealand and Macau to the Faroe Islands, Norway, Switzerland, the Caribbean and the USA, as well as the UK, with over 30 new case studies. We want our readers to be able to use the book as a ‘how to’ guide, to make things easier fo…
Islands are faced with a myriad of challenges: economic failure, natural disasters, political upheavals, and socio- cultural dilemmas. Tourism is the most likely means for economic development in many islands and yet, specific tailor- made policies for an island context have received limited exploration and discussion. The policies explored in this volume include those relating to management, m…
In hospitality, technological evolution has been especially evident, since the introduction of the first equipment, in the nineteenth century, to the use of Artificial Intelligence today. In this context, the concept of Digital Transformation arises, referring to the process of using technology to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of the organization, whether in terms of management pr…
Managing Sustainable Tourism: A Legacy for the Future (4th edition) offers a compre hensive discussion of the field of sustainable tourism from a historical perspective to the current management of sustainable tourism at the local, national, and international levels. This 4th edition has been revised from the previous editions and updated to reflect the many important developments that have tak…