Urban tourism research: Recent progress and current paradoxes

G Ashworth, SJ Page - Tourism management, 2011 - Elsevier
Urban tourism has remained a consistent theme in the expansion of tourism research since
the 1980s and several seminal papers (eg Ashworth, 1989, 2003) have reviewed the state of …

Urban entrepreneurship, corporate interests and sports mega-events: The thin policies of competitiveness within the hard outcomes of neoliberalism

CM Hall - The sociological review, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Mega-events, otherwise referred to as hallmark or special events, are major fairs, festivals,
expositions, cultural and sporting events which are held on either a regular or a one-off …

[BOK][B] Rural tourism development: Localism and cultural change

EW George, H Mair, DG Reid - 2009 - degruyter.com
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[BOK][B] Heritage tourism

HY Park - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Heritage tourism has become an increasingly significant component of the global tourism
industry, particularly in countries striving to diversify away from sea, sand and sun. This …

[BOK][B] Tourism, diasporas and space

T Coles, DJ Timothy - 2004 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Rather fittingly, this book is the result of a transnational enterprise over the last two years. It
is a celebration of the power of e-mail and the speed of telecommunications, of …

Testing governance—A research agenda for exploring urban tourism competitiveness policy: The case of Liverpool 1980–2000

G Connelly - Tourism Geographies, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this paper is to advance the research agenda on British tourism policy by
unravelling the critical issues for the tourism sector in Liverpool associated with its …

Power and tourism policy relations in transition

B Bramwell, D Meyer - Annals of tourism research, 2007 - Elsevier
The paper develops and applies a relational approach to the study of power, policymaking,
and related debates associated with tourism development. This approach focuses on …

The socialist past and postsocialist urban identity in Central and Eastern Europe: The case of Łódź, Poland

C Young, S Kaczmarek - European urban and regional …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Cities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are creating new urban identities under
conditions of postsocialist transformation, Europeanization and globalization. Discourses …

Urban festivals: Geographies of hype, helplessness and hope

G Waitt - Geography Compass, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Let's hold a festival! This article explores why hosting festivals has been widely prescribed
as a panacea for the contemporary social and economic ills of cities. In this article, this is …

Historical and geographical context in festival tourism development

L Ma, AA Lew - Journal of Heritage tourism, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Festivals have increasingly become a significant tool for economic development through
both tourism and the re-imaging and re-branding of cities and regions as modern cultural …