Event tourism in remote areas: an examination of the Birdsville Races

Buultjens, Jeremy; Cairncross, Grant

doi:10.1108/jpmd-07-2014-0010

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“…Relatedly, as argued by Maheshwari et al (2011) a community driven place marketing and city branding outlook plays a key role in creating sustainable community growth strategies -helping to (re)position and differentiate places between one another. Developing a strong, localised brand identity is central to creating and maintaining destination competitiveness and value propositions, to put a place on the map, and encourage tourists to visit (Buultjens and Cairncross, 2015 , 2007). Such view corroborates one of Richard's (2017) central arguments around the fundamental role eventsand an event portfolio of holistic cultural programming -can play in generating a strong local community place and cultural offer as a result of bottom-up community-driven initiatives and top-down cultural programming (Christou, 2017).…”

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“…Relatedly, as argued by Maheshwari et al (2011) a community driven place marketing and city branding outlook plays a key role in creating sustainable community growth strategies – helping to (re)position and differentiate places between one another. Developing a strong, localised brand identity is central to creating and maintaining destination competitiveness and value propositions, to put a place on the map, and encourage tourists to visit (Buultjens and Cairncross, 2015). As argued by Hawkins and Ryan (2013) fostering a strong local identity and collective grassroots community offer is central to creating an authentic, unique and deeper cultural offer – which, according to London’s 2012 legacy narrative was a central aspect of the role of the city’s SME for London and local host community place development strategies (Mayor of London, 2007).…”

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London’s local Olympic legacy

Duignan

2019

JPMD

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Purpose London’s Candidature bid projected an irresistible legacy of lasting benefits for host communities and small businesses. Yet, local post-Games perspectives paint a contrasted picture – one of becoming displaced. This paper aims to draw on event legacy, specifically in relation to rising rents, threats to small business sustainability and impact on place development by empirically examining London’s local embryonic legacies forming across one ex-hosting Olympic community: Central Greenwich. Design/methodology/approach In total, 43 interviews with local businesses (specifically, small retailers and hospitality businesses), local authorities, London-centric and national project actors and policymakers underpin analysis, supported by official London 2012 archival, documentary and media reports, were conducted to add texture and triangulate primary and secondary data sources. Findings Juxtaposing ex ante projections vs emerging ex post realities, this paper reveals a local legacy of small business failure fuelled by rising commercial rents and a wider indifference for protecting diverse urban high streets. Embroiled in a struggle to survive, and barely recognised as a key stakeholder and contributor to legacy, small businesses have and continue to become succeeded by a new business demographic in town: monochromatic global and national chains. Typifying the pervasive shift toward clone town spaces, this article argues that corporate colonisation displaces independent businesses, serves to homogenise town centres, dilute place-based cultural offer and simultaneously stunts access to a positive local development legacy. This paper argues that such processes lead to the production of urban blandscapes that may hamper destination competitiveness. Originality/value Examining event legacy, specifically local legacies forming across ex-host Olympic communities, is a latent, under-researched but vital and critical aspect of scholarship. Most event legacy analysis focuses on longer-term issues for residents, yet little research focuses on both local placed-based development challenges and small business sustainability and survival post-Games. More specifically, little research examines the potential relationship between event-led gentrification, associated rising rents and aforementioned clone town problematic. Revealing and amplifying the idiosyncratic local challenges generated through an in-depth empirically driven triangulation of key local business, policy, governmental and non-governmental perspectives, is a central contribution of this article missing from extant literatures. This paper considers different ways those responsible for event legacy, place managers and developers can combat such aforementioned post-Games challenges.

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“…Relatedly, as argued by Maheshwari et al (2011) a community driven place marketing and city branding outlook plays a key role in creating sustainable community growth strategies – helping to (re)position and differentiate places between one another. Developing a strong, localised brand identity is central to creating and maintaining destination competitiveness and value propositions, to put a place on the map, and encourage tourists to visit (Buultjens and Cairncross, 2015). As argued by Hawkins and Ryan (2013) fostering a strong local identity and collective grassroots community offer is central to creating an authentic, unique and deeper cultural offer – which, according to London’s 2012 legacy narrative was a central aspect of the role of the city’s SME for London and local host community place development strategies (Mayor of London, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

London’s local Olympic legacy

Duignan

2019

JPMD

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“…While the definition of tourism events according to [2], the systematic planning, development and marketing of planned events as tourist attractions and for their benefit in marketing the place, shaping its image and development. Tourism events are an important segment of the tourism industry and have the potential to provide substantial economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits to the destination [3].…”

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Development of Web-based Spatial Information System Tourism Industry Event Distribution (Case Study: DKI Jakarta)

Mahfudz¹,

Arham

Khudzaeva

2021

AISM

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In recent years, the number and scope of events in the Asia and Middle East / North Africa region has increased significantly. Events are one of the things that attracts the attention of foreign tourists to come to visit a country as a tourist destination. Refers toMinister of Tourism Regulation Number 2 Year 2017on Guidelines for Venues for Meetings, Incentive Trips, Conventions and Exhibitions, explains that criteria and indicators are needed to increase the competitiveness of venues for meetings, incentive trips, conventions and exhibitions at the regional and global levels. This is done to increase the number of visits, length of stay, and expenditures for domestic and foreign tourists. Therefore, visual indicators or data are needed that can present the location of the event and a list of events in DKI Jakarta. From these problems, this study aims to produce a web-based spatial information system for the distribution of tourism industry events to map event locations in DKI Jakarta. The methodology used in collecting this data is the method of observation, interviews, and literature studies. While the system development methodology uses PHP and MySQL with the Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach and uses the Unified Modeling Language (UML) which is a tool for system description and design, as well as the Google Maps API for digital maps. The results of this study are in the form of a spatial information system that can display a map of the distribution of event locations in DKI Jakarta based on event data and event categories at the DKI Jakarta Tourism and Creative Economy Department. While the system development methodology uses PHP and MySQL with the Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach and uses the Unified Modeling Language (UML) which is a tool for describing and designing systems, as well as the Google Maps API for digital maps. The results of this study are in the form of a spatial information system that can display a map of the distribution of event locations in DKI Jakarta based on event data and event categories at the DKI Jakarta Tourism and Creative Economy Department. While the system development methodology uses PHP and MySQL with the Rapid Application Development (RAD) approach and uses the Unified Modeling Language (UML) which is a tool for describing and designing systems, as well as the Google Maps API for digital maps. The results of this study are in the form of a spatial information system that can display a map of the distribution of event locations in DKI Jakarta based on event data and event categories in the DKI Jakarta Tourism and Creative Economy Department.

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“…For example, Alves, Cerro, & Martins, (2010) demonstrated the importance and impacts of small rural tourism events and Fountain & Mackay, (2017) describe the role of a rural festival in placemaking for the small town of Akaroa in New Zealand. Placemaking was a key feature in the work by Buultjens & Cairncross (2015) who looked at events in destinations across remote areas in Australia. All of these works focus on a case study approach and a single or small number of events, rather than considering event tourism strategy as a whole.…”

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Networked Economic Value Creation in Event Tourism: An Exploratory Study of Towns and Smaller Cities in the UK

Norman¹,

Nyarko²

2021

Event Management

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This study explores the role of networks in generating economic value for event tourism in towns and smaller cities in the UK. While networks have been shown to create a wide range of value, research in this context is limited and little is understood of if or how economic value is generated. The lens used in this study was the value creating side of the business model canvas with local government organisations as the focal node examining the flow of economic value from partners, activities and resources. There were survey responses from 112 different town and city organisations across the UK. The study found that only the ‘activities’ element of the network contributed significantly to creating economic value in an event tourism context. The network components of ‘partners’ and ‘resources’ were not on their own significant to the creation of economic value. The outcomes of this paper suggest that practitioners in towns and cities should strategise their engagement with local networks through a formal event tourism strategy that clearly defines how they operationalise engagement activities within that network in order the facilitate economic value creation. In addition, the paper raises questions around what resources are needed at the focal node (local government organisations) in order to maximise the economic value created by the network.

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Event tourism in remote areas: an examination of the Birdsville Races

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

London’s local Olympic legacy

London’s local Olympic legacy

Development of Web-based Spatial Information System Tourism Industry Event Distribution (Case Study: DKI Jakarta)

Networked Economic Value Creation in Event Tourism: An Exploratory Study of Towns and Smaller Cities in the UK

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