Kirsten Holmes

Fully revised and updated in its second edition, Events and Sustainability provides a comprehensive introduction to a full range of issues and topics relevant to event sustainability. Topics covered across the book’s insightful and extensive chapters include impacts, operating and policy environments, stimulating urban regeneration and creating lasting legacies, as well as practical knowledge on how to plan and achieve a sustainable event. The volume takes a holistic approach, drawing on multidisciplinary theory to offer insight into the economic, socio-cultural, and environmental impacts, and how these can be adapted or mitigated. This approach is supported with a host of interactive learning features, including discussion questions and guidance for further reading. Content new to this edition includes: • Content on the impact of technology on sustainable events, including live and hybrid events. • New content on international policy, climate change, and measuring impacts. • Revised and original international case studies throughout on a wide range of event types, from mega events to community festivals. Case studies use real world examples to illustrate impacts, best practice, and how sustainable practice can be best achieved in the future. This timely and innovate book is essential reading for students, scholars, and academics within the events management field, as well as future managers within this sphere.

Fully revised and updated in its second edition, Events and Sustainability provides a comprehensive introduction to a full range of issues and topics relevant to event sustainability. Topics covered across the book’s insightful and extensive chapters include impacts, operating and policy environments, stimulating urban regeneration and creating lasting legacies, as well as practical knowledge on how to plan and achieve a sustainable event. The volume takes a holistic approach, drawing on multidisciplinary theory to offer insight into the economic, socio-cultural, and environmental impacts, and how these can be adapted or mitigated. This approach is supported with a host of interactive learning features, including discussion questions and guidance for further reading. Content new to this edition includes: • Content on the impact of technology on sustainable events, including live and hybrid events. • New content on international policy, climate change, and measuring impacts. • Revised and original international case studies throughout on a wide range of event types, from mega events to community festivals. Case studies use real world examples to illustrate impacts, best practice, and how sustainable practice can be best achieved in the future. This timely and innovate book is essential reading for students, scholars, and academics within the events management field, as well as future managers within this sphere.

Recent years have seen an explosion in research on tourism volunteering. Volunteers are an essential part of tourism, whether they are volunteering in their local museum, at a sporting mega-event, as an airport ambassador, or travelling the global as a volunteer tourist. Managing Volunteers in Tourism reviews the latest research to highlight the key management issues and relate them to the tourism volunteering context. It includes previously under-researched forms of tourism volunteering such as meet-and-greeters, surf life-savers, conservation, festival, and information centre volunteers and tourists. The book develops through three distinct sections, the first of which begins by introducing the concept of volunteering and considering the variety of volunteer forms and settings within tourism. The next part picks up the organizational approach and examines volunteer program design and planning, volunteer motivation, recruitment and selection, training and development, reward and retention, and diversity management. The final part consists of ten case studies from leading international researchers and practitioners identifying best practice and key management challenges. Real-life examples and case studies throughout this book provide an in-depth examination of the challenges facing those managing tourism volunteers, making this book indispensable for current and future managers in the tourism industry.

Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for many mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, as well as significant regional and local events, where the event organisers are required by funding bodies and governments to generate broader outcomes for the locality. This book is the first to offer students a comprehensive introduction to the full range of issues and topics relevant to event sustainability including impacts, operating and policy environments, stimulating urban regeneration and creating lasting legacies, as well as practical knowledge on how to achieve a sustainable event. Taking a holistic approach drawing on multidisciplinary theory it offers insight into the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts and how these can be adapted or mitigated. Theory and practice are linked through integrated case studies based on a wide range of event types from mega events to community festivals to show impacts, best practice and how better sustainable practice can be achieved in the future. Learning objectives, discussion questions and further reading suggestions are included to aid understanding and further knowledge; additional resources for lecturers and students including power point slides, video and web links are available online. Events and Sustainability is essential reading for all events management students and future managers.

Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for many mega-events, such as the Olympic Games, as well as significant regional and local events, where the event organisers are required by funding bodies and governments to generate broader outcomes for the locality. This book is the first to offer students a comprehensive introduction to the full range of issues and topics relevant to event sustainability including impacts, operating and policy environments, stimulating urban regeneration and creating lasting legacies, as well as practical knowledge on how to achieve a sustainable event. Taking a holistic approach drawing on multidisciplinary theory it offers insight into the economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts and how these can be adapted or mitigated. Theory and practice are linked through integrated case studies based on a wide range of event types from mega events to community festivals to show impacts, best practice and how better sustainable practice can be achieved in the future. Learning objectives, discussion questions and further reading suggestions are included to aid understanding and further knowledge; additional resources for lecturers and students including power point slides, video and web links are available online. Events and Sustainability is essential reading for all events management students and future managers.

Recent years have seen an explosion in research on tourism volunteering. Volunteers are an essential part of tourism, whether they are volunteering in their local museum, at a sporting mega-event, as an airport ambassador, or travelling the global as a volunteer tourist. Managing Volunteers in Tourism reviews the latest research to highlight the key management issues and relate them to the tourism volunteering context. It includes previously under-researched forms of tourism volunteering such as meet-and-greeters, surf life-savers, conservation, festival, and information centre volunteers and volunTourists. The book develops through three distinct sections, the first of which begins by introducing the concept of volunteering and considering the variety of volunteer forms and settings within tourism. The next part picks up the organizational approach and examines volunteer program design and planning, volunteer motivation, recruitment and selection, training and development, reward and retention, and diversity management. The final part consists of ten case studies from leading international researchers and practitioners identifying best practice and key management challenges. Real-life examples and case studies throughout this book provide an in-depth examination of the challenges facing those managing tourism volunteers, making this book indispensible for current and future managers in the tourism industry.