Event Tourism and Sustainable Community Development: Advances, Effects, Implications

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Addresses the need to develop event tourism sustainably for effective local community development, examining its impact on sustainability, local culture and community, and community development. It covers rural and urban events, tourism during and after COVID–19, how event tourism impacts women’s empowerment, and more. The event tourism business has become more and more essential to community development in countries around the world, helping to increase the appeal of specific destinations and generating huge economic benefits for the communities of the destinations, impacting local economies. With examples from India, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Portugal, Argentina, and Zimbabwe, this volume provides a valuable examination of sustainable community development in conjunction with event tourism along with helpful tools for promoting, organizing, and hosting successful events. This book looks at a wide range of festivals and other events around the world and examines their impact on tourism, sustainability, local culture and community, and community development. It highlights rural as well as urban event tourism, event tourism during and after COVID–19, how event tourism impacts women’s empowerment, promoting event tourism and community development, new opportunities and challenges in event tourism education, and more.

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Pagina's: 308, Editie: Eerste editie, Hardcover, Apple Academic Press