Events Books

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11. Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

    Volume One: Making the Games

    Edited by Vassil Girginov

    The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase...

    Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
12. Policing Global Movement

    Tourism, Migration, Human Trafficking, and Terrorism

    Edited by S. Caroline Taylor, Daniel Joseph Torpy, Dilip K. Das

    The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially—some for benign reasons, others nefarious, including terrorism, human trafficking, and people smuggling. Consequently, the policing of human movement within and across borders has been and remains a significant concern to nations....

    Published September 23rd 2012 by CRC Press
13. Event Tourism and Cultural Tourism

    Issues and Debates

    Edited by Larry Dwyer, Eugenia Wickens

    Event and cultural tourism as a social practice is a widespread phenomenon of global socio-economic importance. The purpose of the book is to bring together current thinking on contemporary issues relating to the management and marketing of cultural events and attractions. The contributions to the...

    Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
14. Event Studies

    Theory, Research and Policy for Planned Events, 2nd Edition

    By Donald Getz

    Series: Events Management

    Event Studies is the only book devoted to developing knowledge and theory about planned events. This book focuses on event planning and management, outcomes, the experience of events and the meanings attached to them, the dynamic processes shaping events and why people attend them. Event Studies...

    Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge
15. Events Management

    An Introduction

    By Charles Bladen, James Kennell, Emma Abson, Nick Wilde

    Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This major new introductory textbook is the first to fully explore the multi-disciplinary nature of events management and to provide all the practical skills and professional knowledge students need to succeed in the events industry...

    Published February 9th 2012 by Routledge
16. International Sports Events

    Impacts, Experiences and Identities

    Edited by Richard Shipway, Alan Fyall

    Series: Advances in Tourism

    This book offers new insight into International Sports Events (ISEs), examining the relationship between sport, tourism and events. It assesses sports events through the lens of both sports participants and spectators, based on three primary themes: impacts, experiences and identities. The first...

    Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
17. Events and Urban Regeneration

    The Strategic Use of Events to Revitalise Cities

    By Andrew Smith

    In recent years, major sporting and cultural events such as the Olympic Games have emerged as significant elements of public policy, particularly in efforts to achieve urban regeneration. As well as opportunities arising from new venues, these events are viewed as a way of stimulating investment,...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
18. The Routledge Handbook of Events

    Edited by Stephen Page, Joanne Connell

    The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with this rapidly expanding discipline. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
19. Festival and Event Management in Nordic Countries

    Edited by Tommy Andersson, Donald Getz, Reidar Johan Mykletun

    This book on events-related research marks a watershed in the development of a "Nordic School" of festival and event research. Each of the chapters presents a new and interesting approach to the study of events, in terms of methods, perspectives or content. It is mostly rooted in management theory...

    Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
20. Event Policy

    From Theory to Strategy

    By Malcolm Foley, David McGillivray, Gayle McPherson

    As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive ‘events’ policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation. Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to...

    Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge