Sentence examples for event tourism from inspiring English sources

Donald Getz, a University of Calgary business professor and author of "Event Management and Event Tourism," who has studied small businesses operating in tourist-dependent economies, divides the owners into two types: lifestyle entrepreneurs and business growers.

We illustrate the theoretical and managerial implications of the meta-event concept for event tourism studies and destination managers.

Our in-depth qualitative study contributes to the event tourism planning and management literature in three ways.

First, we shed light on how and why competing Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) cooperate to plan, develop and manage event tourism.

By using an evolutionary analysis of the spatial structure of the waterfront landscape, it demonstrates that government development agencies and event tourism have been the key agents of change in influencing its redevelopment at different phases.

On these grounds, it is argued that the phenomenological perspective applied on the study of event tourism can enable destination marketing and management to develop a joint framework for cross-leveraging events and destination assets, hence, synergistically optimizing both social and tourism ends for host destinations.

Findings show that events tourism strategies of public sector events agencies (within or outside tourism bodies) are mostly reactive or proactive relative to emerging episodes/events.

In his address to a Sports & Events Tourism conference, Jordaan added that the economic expectations of South Africans for the event were unrealistically high.

This research examines the strategy concept [Hax, A., Majluf, N. (1991). The strategy concept and process: A pragmatic approach. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall International] in tourism before exploring how different schools of strategy [Mintzberg, H. (1994b). The rise and fall of strategic planning. New York: Prentice-Hall] are applied in events tourism.

The visa for business, cultural, sport events, tourism, visiting family and friends should be mentioned.

As well as the financial impact of the Games, the report also considers the effect of the event on tourism, regeneration, civic pride and culture.