Factors influencing visitor travel to festivals: challenges in encouraging sustainable travel

Collins, Andrea Jayne; Potoglou, Dimitris

doi:10.1080/09669582.2019.1604718

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“…The profit loss to the US sports tourism industry due to coronavirus closures is likely to be staggering. Tourism contributes significantly to the total economy of the United States and the world as an employment provider and revenue generator (Hara & Naipaul, 2008;see Milne & Ateljevic, 2001;Ioannides & Zampoukos, 2018), and this remains true for forms of sport (Collins & Cooper, 2017;Daniels & Norman, 2003;Gumprecht, 2008) and event tourism (Collins & Potoglou, 2019). The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament itself is a major catalyst of economic activity both in primary advertising and university-based markets (Shapiro et al, 2009) and in secondary markets (Rishe et al, 2014).…”

Section: Economic Impact: Sports Tourism As Revenuementioning

confidence: 99%

Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Cooper

Alderman

2020

Tourism Geographies

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One of the earliest signals of the severity of the spread of COVID-19 in the United States and other countries was the swift cancelation of many highly prominent amateur and professional sporting events and seasons like the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, known as "March Madness." The loss of March Madness is treated as a moment of creative tension, when disruptions can facilitate reflection and lead to positive change. We discuss the economic, socio-cultural, and environmental effects of shuttering the tournament and suggest that an understanding of the impacts of COVID-19 offers an opportunity to bring about an alternative, more sustainable sports tourism economy. The cancellation of March Madness resulted in the loss of millions of dollars in tourism revenue for local economies and deprived traveler-fans of pilgrimages to arenas, important socio-cultural gathering spaces for American basketball fans. However, it also prevented the emission of a sizable quantity of greenhouse gasses based on our carbon footprint calculated from the previous year's tournament. Ultimately, from the disruptive closing down of sport and event tourism, a post-pandemic sports tourism landscape should emerge that takes more seriously the triple-bottom line notion of balancing a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions with the creation and maintenance of resilient local economies all while both acknowledging the important role sport plays in society and keeping tourism actors healthy.

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Section: Economic Impact: Sports Tourism As Revenuementioning

confidence: 99%

Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Cooper

Alderman

2020

Tourism Geographies

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“…Whilst events are often represented as "bounded" phenomena, confined to specific places and times, they are embedded within wider processes and everyday lives. A good example is the travel dimension: if we confine analysis to assessing an individual event's sustainability, this tends to ignore elements outside the space-time of the event, including audience travel which is reported to contribute 80% of CO 2 emissions attributable to UK festivals (cited in Collins & Potoglou, 2019). Focusing merely on making an individual event more sustainable also ignores the potentially positive contribution events can make to wider sustainable development, most notably through educating and inspiring people, and by provisioning temporary experiences that might encourage people to adopt more sustainable ways of living.…”

Section: Events and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Events and sustainability: why making events more sustainable is not enough

Mair

Smith

2021

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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The special issue dedicated to events and sustainability is introduced here. We provide synopses of the papers, preceded by an introductory essay that examines how event studies has approached the relationship between events and sustainable development. Existing work too often assumes that sustainability means reducing negative environmental impacts with other aspects of the sustainability paradigm neglected. And whilst social issues have risen to prominence in events research generally, this work is usually considered outwith sustainability debates, and without considering environmental and economic interrelationships. We argue that event scholars should examine how events might contribute to sustainable development, rather than merely exploring how individual events could be made more sustainable. Accordingly, there needs to be further work addressing how events might change attitudes and behaviours by promoting sustainable lifestyles, communities and technologies. Following this discussion, we justify the focus on social sustainability in the special issue, clarify what this actually means, and question whether this is always the most appropriate way of framing research on the social impacts of events. Given the timing of the special issue, there is also a short review of how the coronavirus crisis affected the events sector, and what the implications might be for sustainability.

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“…There is a complex relationship between events and climate change. On the one hand, festivals and events are significant emitters of greenhouse gases, particularly through their transport and energy use (Collins and Potoglou, 2019). On the other hand, however, events offer an opportunity to showcase best practice in mitigation and adaptation and have the potential to educate, inform and influence behaviour amongst attendees (Mair, 2014).…”

Section: Festivals In a Climate Changing Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Future trajectories of festival research

Duffy

Mair

2021

Tourist Studies

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In their editorial for the first issue of Tourist Studies, Adrian Franklin and Mike Crang made us aware that tourism research had shifted to an exploration of the extraordinary everyday where ‘more or less everyone now lives in a world rendered or reconfigured as interesting, entertaining and attractive – for tourists’. From our standpoint 20 years later, we suggest this particular departure point has important insights to offer our understanding of a quintessential tourism event, that of the festival, which now intervenes in daily life in all manner of ways. In this commentary, we present a reflective commentary on recent scholarship that advocates for more rigour in festival studies, with greater theory development and testing within the festival context, and how this work is suggestive of future directions for festival research. We present several areas that are ripe for further research, particularly given the tumultuous nature of the world we are living in, such as the challenges of climate change and how we might socialise in a post-Covid world. Much has changed in the 20 years since the inception of Tourist Studies, but festivals remain resilient – they will re-emerge in future, perhaps not unscathed but with a renewed sense of purpose.

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Factors influencing visitor travel to festivals: challenges in encouraging sustainable travel

Cited by 35 publications

References 67 publications

Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Events and sustainability: why making events more sustainable is not enough

Future trajectories of festival research

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