Table of Contents

PART I Fundamental concepts 1. Events tourism: an overview PART II Contemporary perspectives 2. Events as Visitor Attractions in Destination Shopping Centres 3. Managing the event workforce: analysing the heterogeneity of job experiences 4. User-generated events in tourism: a new must-not-miss phenomenon 5. Undocumented! Small events of rural hinterlands, South Africa 6. Entrepreneurship development and Slow Food events 7. Riding wanderlust: the case of motorcycle events PART III Regeneration, displacement and planning frameworks 8. Quake aftermath and conference industry transformation, Christchurch 9. A critical view on mega-events economic impacts studies: Milan 2015 and beyond 10. Destination Israel and Malawi wanderlusts 11. City rebranding, social discontent and bidding for cultural events 12. MICE tourism development in Ethiopia PART IV The future of events tourism 13. Reshaping metropolitan cities and creative tourism through artists’ vision 14. Counterculture and the future of music festivals and events 15. Events tourism: a critical debate for the 21st century

About the Author

Violet V. Cuffy is a senior lecturer in events and tourism management at the University of Bedfordshire with a background in tourism consultancy. Violet is co-editor of Lifelong Learning for Tourism: An International Perspective and principal investigator of Arts Humanities Research Council grant on Dominica Creole heritage.

Fiona Bakas is a critical tourism researcher and part-time lecturer, with events industry experience in the conference sector. Fiona is currently working at Coimbra University, Portugal, as postdoctoral researcher on a nationwide project on creative tourism in rural areas and small cities, called CREATOUR.

Willem J. L. Coetzee is a senior lecturer in tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research theme is within the nexus of tourism, events and the SDGs, with a focus on mega and hallmark events, and tourism within water-stressed destinations.