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The Impact of Domestic Gastronomic Festivals on the Local Accomodations
DETUROPE, 2015 Food festivals are a mainstay of the festival sector and some surveys show that they currently account for 30 percent. Despite this, we know very little about this important part of event tourism, and its economic and social impacts. This study tries to
István Bottyán
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The Role of Rural Cities' Festivals in the Development of Regions
DETUROPE, 2017 Festival tourism is a dynamically developing area of tourism which is supported by the growing number of festival tourists and by the strengthening of traveling motivations to festivals.
Katalin Ásvanyi, Melinda Jászberényi
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Festivals and the City: The Contested Geographies of Urban Events [PDF]
, 2022 London’s parks are used regularly as venues for festivals and events. A wide range of occasions are staged every year: from multi-day music festivals to community fun days. The attractive and flexible spaces that park settings provide, and their symbolic
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Land, 2023 Rural arts events (triennials/festivals) are mainly aimed at local and regional revitalization. This exhibition-driven tourism (unlike traditional festivals, conferences, and exhibitions) has existed for more than 20 years in Japan.
Gangwei Cai +8 more
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Why people attend science festivals : interests, motivations and self-reported benefits of public engagement with research [PDF]
, 2014 As a form of public engagement, science festivals have rapidly expanded in size and number over recent years. However, as with other domains of informal public engagement that are not linked to policy outcomes, existing research does not fully address ...
Buckley, Nicola, Jensen, Eric
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Impacts of insecurity on recreation and tourism in Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria [PDF]
Zbornik radova Departmana za geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo, 2023 Insecurity has become a global phenomenon affected even the most advanced countries of the world such as the United States of America where periodic gun violence or mass shooting of unarmed civilians has been claiming many lives annually.
Iguda Ladan Suleiman
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Valuing the impacts of festivals
, 2018 Increasingly, economic assessment is used by festival convenors to support access to public funding. Governments are often asked to provide financial support for festivals, including the allocation of substantial funds to provide or upgrade the ...
Jago, Leo +3 more
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ROLE OF EVENTFULNESS IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NEIGHBORHOODS (CASE STUDY: SHIRAZ, IRAN)
European Journal of Geography, 2021 Festivals have various economic and social impacts at the neighbourhood level, and this paper aimed to explore such impacts. The statistical population consisted of local experts, including the specialists, municipality authorities, and researchers of ...
Aeizh AZMI, Khojasteh HASHEMI
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Il Capitale Culturale: Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, 2022 I festival rappresentano una parte vitale della società umana. Sono prevalentemente un fenomeno sociale e tradizionalmente ci concedono una pausa dal duro lavoro e dalla vita quotidiana mondana, consentendoci momenti di socializzazione e svago.
Enrico Nicosia
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, 2020 Festivals have become a part of the cultural fabric of global society and a tourism and leisure pursuit that is participated in by many. The COVID-19 crisis has meant that many festivals in 2020 have been cancelled or postponed.
Davies, Karen
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