These proceedings examine cultural and event tourism. The proceedings consist of 13 articles. The first article considers a network-based stakeholder approach for marketing and managing community-run events and festivals between the Orta and Maggiore Lakes in Italy. The second article develops a...

The growing attention placed on experiences can be regarded as a mega-trend, and has given currency to the proposition that experiences function as a personal source of information for the stories people tell about their lives and are important for their self-perception. This view implies the...

This paper explores how tourism has been embraced as an entrepreneurial activity by an indigenous group in Lapland, Sweden. Since 1996, the Laponia area, a national park in Lapland province, has been a UNESCO World Heritage site and, consequently, a growing amount of tourists has visited the...

Ronström's tradition/heritage dichotomy is used to explore issues of cultural inheritance in the Danish island of Ærø. The 2006 publication of Carsten Jensen's best-selling historical novel We, the Drowned turned the Baltic Sea village of Marstal into Denmark's best-known maritime community....

Regional competitiveness has become a truism for many places today. In line with this "competitive discourse", planners in Umeǻ, Northern Sweden, are seeking to create a "sticky" place where capital and people are attracted by enhancing the cultural sector through the hosting of events. By...

The importance and definition of festival size is first considered. Then data on whole festival populations in three Norwegian counties are analyzed. The analysis reveals a clear pattern in all three counties that is termed the "festival size pyramid" in which the base consists of a large number of ...

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...

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...

Choices made around using language in museums can either reinforce or challenge existing common sense language regimes and cultural hegemonies. The issues around linguistic choices are particularly pronounced for a museum of indigenous culture in a multilingual minority language community. Using...

Co-creation in tourist experiences is well established, and tourism managers are increasingly aware of tourists' role in the creation of own experiences. Other actors are often involved in this creation, and the question is, what they experience and gain from their involvements. Heritage sites...