“…Some have traced residents' opinions over time using longitudinal approaches (Getz, 1994;Lee & Back, 2006;Ritchie, Shipway, & Cleeve, 2009), while others have added novelty by concentrating on sectors that contribute indirectly to tourism, such as the casinos (Lee & Back, 2006;Lee, Kang, Long, & Resisinger, 2010) and events (Cheng & Jarvis, 2010;Fredline & Faulkner, 2002; S. S. Kim & Petrick, 2005;Lorde, Greenidge, & Devonish, 2011;Ritchie et al, 2009;Yang, Zeng, & Gu, 2010;Zhou, 2010). Zhou (2010) suggests that research into resident perceptions of locally hosted events have tended to focus on one-off megaevents such as the Olympics, the FIFA World Cup, and world exhibitions (Lee & Taylor, 2005;Waitt, 2003;Yang et al, 2010). In spite of this collective research effort, the theoretical approaches used have been limited and the specific case of convention centers has been largely omitted (Sharpley, 2014).…”