Sport events and integrated destination development

Mackellar, Joanne; Nisbet, Sharen

doi:10.1080/13683500.2014.959903

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“…In this regard, research on single events is useful (e.g., Chalip, 2006;Picard & Robinson, 2006;Schulenkorf, 2010;Sharpe, 2008). More recently, Mackellar and Nisbet (2017) looking at the case of Sail Port Stephens, a competitive sports sailing event in Australia, found that through its network interaction, the event (1) harnessed the natural and man-made resources of the destination to produce a new and exciting visitor product, (2) enhanced network relationships, (3) enhanced the visitor experience, (4) introduced new markets to the destination, (5) developed inter-industry and inter-destination ties, and (6) developed collaborative destination planning capabilities. Based on this evidence, they concluded that sport events can become a mechanism through which destinations develop products and services that utilize resources and competencies across several firms to contribute to destination development.…”

Section: Event Portfolio Theory: Origins Conceptualizations and Intementioning

confidence: 99%

Issues, patterns and strategies in the development of event portfolios: configuring models, design and policy

Ziakas

2018

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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Whilst the use of event portfolios as a multipurpose policy tool is increasing worldwide, academic attention on this phenomenon remains sparse. In response, the purpose of this review paper is to identify the major issues in the use of portfolios by host communities and destinations aspiring to become eventful and delineate the emergent development patterns and strategies. The paper postulates the core dynamics that can enable capacitybuilding in event portfolio development and suggests a network framework for setting up a holistic portfolio policy with systemic management properties. This framework provides a theoretical scaffolding to contextualize the first formalized city portfolio strategies. Based on this discussion, four major issues are identified: portfolio configurations, leveraging, sustainability, and community capacity-building. Policy implications are drawn that theorize the surfacing portfolio development models, design logics and strategic approaches. The effects on social structures are considered in terms of how they determine the longevity, legitimation, and institutional embeddedness of event portfolios. The paper proffers that event portfolios represent a multi-dimensional phenomenon and highly versatile policy tool with manifold configurations. Their sustainable growth requires a shift in event-tourism thinking from the hitherto focus on single major events to managing multiple events for achieving multiple purposes.

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Section: Event Portfolio Theory: Origins Conceptualizations and Intementioning

confidence: 99%

Issues, patterns and strategies in the development of event portfolios: configuring models, design and policy

Ziakas

2018

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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“…In event tourism, partnerships, collaborations and networks have been studied starting from the first half of the 2000s (e.g., Getz et al, 2007;Larson, 2009;Mackellar and Nisbet;Stokes, 2006;Whitford, 2004). More specifically, a few scholars have adopted an inter-organisational relationships approach (Stokes, 2006), including other networks (Larson, 2009;Scott et al, 2008) and stakeholders' theories (Getz et al, 2007) to describe the organisations and individuals involved in staging and managing events.…”

Section: Event Tourism and Destination Partnershipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More specifically, a few scholars have adopted an inter-organisational relationships approach (Stokes, 2006), including other networks (Larson, 2009;Scott et al, 2008) and stakeholders' theories (Getz et al, 2007) to describe the organisations and individuals involved in staging and managing events. Building on management literature dealing with networks (see Håkansson and Snehota, 1995), a growing body of research has investigated the role of sporting event networks (for instance, see Cobbs and Hylton, 2012;Ericson and Kushner, 1999;Mackellar and Nisbet;.…”

Section: Event Tourism and Destination Partnershipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “Pink Night” festival revisited: Meta-events and the role of destination partnerships in staging event tourism

Mariani

Giorgio

2017

Annals of Tourism Research

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This paper adopts a managerial perspective to revisit an original case study of the "Pink Night" festival presented by Giovanardi et al. (2014) in an earlier issue of this journal. Our in-depth qualitative study contributes to the event tourism planning and management literature in three ways. First, we shed light on how and why competing Destination Management Organisations (DMOs) cooperate to plan, develop and manage event tourism. Second, we introduce and describe the brand new concept of the meta-event, which is the main theoretical contribution of this work. Third, we elucidate the role of meta-events as brand architecture tools to rebrand and reposition wide tourism areas. We illustrate the theoretical and managerial implications of the meta-event concept for event tourism studies and destination managers.

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“…The accuracy of marketing strategies, the correct implementation of intercultural communications in the policy of positioning and promoting tourist products and destinations (Jeuring, 2016) can enhance the effect of using the potential of mega-events for the development of tourism. Experts note even greater effectiveness is reached during integrating of marketing and managerial efforts in developing tourist destinations (Mackellar & Nisbet, 2017). Building network interaction of structural elements of the organizational mechanism is highly important (Song, Kim, & Choe, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%