Tourism is a mixed industry in the sense that public, nonprofit and private organizations compete and collaborate. This is a study of festival management implications related to various types of ownership in a sample of music festivals. Three business models are identified: Public, Nonprofit and...

An understanding of visitors' motivations to attend a multicultural event is essential for the development of attracting event offerings. Whilst it is acknowledged that a multicultural festival provides many benefits for tourists and residents alike, there is little consensus on why visitors are...

This special issue examines events through management theory and other perspectives and discusses implications for real-world applications in tourism, hospitality and community development. The issue consists of 11 articles. The first article presents the Finnish Event Evaluation Tool (FEET) which...

This is the second special issue of this journal that addresses special event management research and practice, and it contains eight articles that attempt to meet some of the research gaps that still exist. Included are research papers addressing three important issues related to the meetings...

The paper reports from a multiple case study investigating three music festivals located in the Barents region, namely the Festspel i Pite Älvdal (Piteå, Sweden), the Festspillene i Nord-Norge (Harstad, Norway) and the Jutajaiset Folklorefestivaali (Rovaniemi, Finland). The aim of the reported...

The diversity of festivals in Finnmark, Norway, was researched with the aim of creating a festival map of the county's Festivalscape. Data were collected by questionnaires to the registered festival managers. It was concluded that Finnmark is a festive county where 72,000 people share close to 60 ...

This study assessed the role of family decision makers in participating in a festival according to five stages of festival participation. A survey process was conducted using two sampling groups: the sample for families with children and the sample for families without children. According to the...

This article sets out to identify, differentiate, and categorize festival stakeholders by means of a multidimensional approach. Festivals are coproduced by a collection of stakeholders, and festival organizers facilitate the festival outcomes by interpreting stakeholders' contributions, aims, and...

To describe the value of event experiences remains a challenge for event research. Recently, use-value has been successfully applied to event valuation, drawing on extensive research and a validated methodology from environmental and culture economics. The objectives of this study are first to...

The aim of the research reported upon in this study is to examine the impact of visitors' socio-demographic and festival experience-related variables on expenditure levels and patterns of visits to festivals. Three statistical models including logit, OLS (ordinary least square) and Tobit models are ...