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Sport competitions at the national, European and global levels have evolved in terms of economic investment, social importance and media coverage. However, this evolution has brought with it major political concerns. There is a need of construction of an environment of life where sport events and the multiple activities and interests related to them can be kept safe from any risk and potentially harmful occurrence. The aim of this volume is to highlight the complex set of legal provisions, surveillance and policing practices, discourses, bureaucratic procedures and spatial and architectural forms underpin the security governance of sport events and their effects in the contemporary era of widespread uncertainty.

The part of the tourism industry which covers events, conventions and meetings is a substantial part of the global economy and provides employment for a very large number of people worldwide. The breakdown of employees in this sector is complex - employees can be full-time, casual labour or part of a volunteer workforce, and events can be as diverse as the Olympic Games and a local meeting. This book examines the role of people who work in events, meetings and conventions by looking at the context in which they work, and presenting theories, perspectives underlying trends of employment in this sector. Leading authors present international examples to further understanding of the concepts involved in people management in tourism events. This book will be an important resource for students and researchers of leisure, tourism and events management.

The growing complexity and importance of sports and event marketing has pushed scholars and practitioners to apply sophisticated marketing thinking and applications to these topics. This book deals with the professional development in the sense that sports marketing can be viewed as an application of consumer behavior research. Readers will learn about new opportunities in using consumer behavior knowledge effectively in the areas of: influencing behaviors in society and sports; building relationships with consumers through sports and events; and providing services to consumers through sport and event sponsorships. This book, by a superb group of authors, includes comprehensive reviews, innovative conceptual pieces, empirical research and rigorous attention to data. \"This book adds to our understanding of the complex world in which the sports consumer resides. The diversity of the topics explored, the up- to -date data and issues described, and the expertise of the editors and authors are key features of this volume.\" - Gregg Bennett, Sports Management, Texas A&M, USA \"The understanding of sport consumer behavior has become key to marketing sport and to examining what makes sport special to those who play and those who watch. This book provides detailed overviews and insightful syntheses. It is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how and why consumers build sport into their lives.\" - Laurence Chalip, Sport Management Program, University of Texas at Austin, USA \" Consumer Behavior Knowledge for Effective Sports and Event Marketing is a unique volume that provides both sports marketing academicians and practitioners with cutting edge ideas that they will find to be very beneficial. This volume will provide academicians with excellent reviews of current knowledge, and perhaps more importantly, food for thought in the development of new sports marketing research ideas and priorities. At the same time, practitioners will gather insights from this volume that they will be able to apply to the decisions they make on a day to day basis, as well as their critical longer term strategic decisions.\" - Scott Kelley, Director, University of Kentucky Center for Sports Marketing; and Professor of Marketing, Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky, USA \"In my 19 years as head basketball coach at UNLV, I witnessed the value of understanding consumer behavior to improve our sports program and brand. Building a sports brand via engaging events entails understanding emotion, psychology, and relationships. This book employs tested theories to give managers connection with the community.\" - Jerry Tarkanian, \"Tark the Shark\", NCAA Div. I National Basketball Champion Head Coach, 1990 \"In this book, Kahle and Close bring together conceptual and theoretical insights, along with the results of empirical research to illuminate a myriad of dimensions of consumer, behavior in sport and events….As a whole, this book reflects the core ideas:..to influence consumer behavior in terms of time, money and emotional attachment to brands and products, one must first understand the behavior -whether within the arena of sports and sporting events (as here) ….or beyond it in the broader world of marketing.\" - from Foreword by Stephen A. Greyser, Harvard Business School, USA J. King, L.R. Kahle, A. Close , Introduction: Study of Sports Consumer Behavior. Part 1. Influencing Behaviors and Society in Sports. S.P. Lee, T.B. Cornwell, A Framework for Measuring the Contributions of Sport to Society: Actors, Activities and Outcomes. E.R. Hirt, J.J. Clarkson , The Psychology of Fandom: Understanding the Etiology, Motives, and Implications of Fanship. S. Jones, S.J. Grove, G.M. Pickett, Spectator Rage: An Overview. D.L. Scammon, D.A. Fuller, K. Karniouchina, T. Masters , Sport Related Subculture as a Useful Basis of Market Segmentation: Insights for Ski Area Managers. Part 2. Building Relationships with Consumers Through Sports. P.A. Kennett-Hensel, R. Lacey, M. Biggers , The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on NBA Fan Relationships: A Conceptual Framework. S.J. Andrews , And a Child Athlete Will Save Us: Marketing Psychosocial and Physical Benefits of Sport to Children, Adolescents, Coaches and Parents. L.H.V. Kurpis, C.S. Bozman , The Motivations Associated with Attendance and Participation in an Amateur Sporting Event. R. Burton, J. Tripoldi, S. Owen, L.R. Kahle, Hospitality: A Key Sponsorship Service in Sports Marketing. Part 3. Providing Service to Consumers Through Sports and Event Sponsorship. T.J. Reynolds , Assessing the Existential Validity of the Bowl Championship Series Rankings. F. Riedmueller , Service Quality Perceived by Fans at Professional Sporting Events. R.Z. Finney, R. Lacey, A.G. Close, Event Marketing and Sponsorship: Lessons Learned from the Tour De Georgia Cycling Races. Angeline G. Close (PhD, University of Georgia) researches, teaches, and serves the marketing community. Her expertise is in event marketing— namely how consumers' experiences at sponsored events influence attitudes and consumer behavior. Current studies explore engaging consumers with events, uncovering drivers of effective event sponsorships, how entertainment impacts affect towards events/purchase intention towards sponsors, and why consumers may resist events. Synergistically, she studies consumers'　experiences with electronic marketplaces— consumers' online experiences, and how they interplay with onground events. Her research ties theory with implications for consumers, society, or consumer-focused business practice. She has contributed peer-reviewed studies in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Advances in Consumer Research, Journal of Advertising Research, and Journal of Business Research, among other articles and book chapters.　 Lynn R. Kahle (Ph.D. Nebraska, post-doc Michigan) holds the Ehrman Giustina Professorship (endowed, tenured chair) in Marketing and has been the Department Chair in the Department of Marketing at the University of Oregon, USA.　 He has been on the faculty in the Lundquist College of Business since 1983.　 As Department Chair he was instrumental in founding the highly regarded James H. Warsaw Sports Marketing Center. He served as the founding Director of the Center, which Sports Illustrated described as the \"best sports management school.\" (Oct. 7, 2002).　 He has chaired his University's Intercollegiate Athletic Committee and has been active in civic affairs as well, serving among other things as the head of the City of Eugene Human Rights Program.

*The first book to cover events management from a research angle*Includes a number of case studies to provide a well-rounded approach to the subject*Addresses key concepts, theories and discussions around subjects such as consumer behaviour, authenticity and new technology

Appropriating live televised football through talk illustrates linguistic and embodied resources, e.g. cohesive devices, sequentiality and gestures, used by empirical audiences in the reception situation for a variety of functions such as the construction of an identity as football fan.

This book examines the destinations and sites that are being created for tourists, as well as for local people within an urban regeneration context, with a particular focus on tourism's relationship to urban regeneration and cultural development. It examines the impact of such developments on a local sense of place, heritage and identity. It examines how far, arts and artistic quality/integrity is compromised by being used as a tool for regeneration. It examines if global/local debates can be resolved within the context of regeneration, and how. These issues and others are exemplified using a number of international case studies in North and South America, as well as in Europe and the UK. Chapter 1 examines the issues and problems inherent in implementing urban regeneration projects and highlights the increasingly important role that culture and tourism play in the process. Chapter 2 examines the increasingly important role of creativity in urban regeneration. Chapter 3 examines the regeneration of new or less familiar areas of cities, and their development for tourism purposes. Chapter 4 examines mixed-use developments in city fringe areas, especially those with culturally diverse or ethnic populations. Chapter 5 examines the development of ethnoscapes or those areas of cities with a high concentration of ethnic minorities, and analyses the way in which multiculturalism has become an increasingly attractive selling point for city tourism. Chapter 6 examines some of the difficulties of interpreting and commemorating spaces of dissonant heritage in black heritage sites in New Jersey, USA. Chapter 7 examines the complexities that exist within large-scale, mixed-use development projects through the example of the newly developed Waterfront City of Odaiba in Tokyo, Japan. Chapter 8 examines the role of major sporting events in urban regeneration, tourism development, image enhancement and social inclusion. Chapter 9 examines the role of the Olympic Games in the regeneration of U.S. cities. Chapter 10 examines the role of the cultural industries in the regeneration of former industrial cities, focusing in particular on Lowell, Massachusetts in New England, USA. Chapter 11 examines how Chicago, a city in the USA that previously was dependent on the manufacturing industry, has sought to improve its economic position and raises its national and international profile via locally-driven strategies focused on facilitating the physical, economic and cultural restructuring of its downtown area. Chapter 12 examines the Avenue of the Arts in Philadelphia, USA, as an example of a project that has been largely successful due to charismatic leadership, dynamic fund-raising campaigns and coordinated public and private partnerships. Chapter 13 examines the problems and the potential benefits of waterfront developments in the context of regeneration. Chapter 14 examines the changing role of dockland cities and urban regeneration strategies, focusing in particular on case studies of Liverpool and Cardiff in the UK. Chapter 15 examines the use of interpretative planning in the context of Recife, Brazil. In conclusion, the richness, creativity, innovation and ambition of regeneration projects is indicated in a wide range of contexts. But cultural, tourism or urban development, cannot compensate for economic decline, environmental decay or social unrest. They can only alleviate some of the problems and tensions, and give new hope to cities. It would be misguided to suggest that there could be a 'checklist' for all cities hoping to embark on a 'successful' regeneration scheme, especially given that similar schemes can easily fail in different contexts. However, several factors seem to emerge as being rather critical to the future of regeneration. Whatever the context - be it Europe, the USA, Asia, Australasia - the issues and dilemmas surrounding cultural regeneration are broadly similar. Pessimists might conclude that regeneration is just another 'flash-in-the-pan' phenomenon that has helped to plug the gaps in economic and social decline. However, it is argued that within the academic/practitioner community, there is excitement, dynamism and great hope in the future for the phenomenon of regeneration.

In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person. Beginning with the argument that Weberian charisma of person is itself a matter of representation, this volume shows that to study charismatic art is to experiment with a theory of representation that allows for the possibility of nothing less than a breakdown between art and viewer and between art and lived experience. The volume examines charismatic works of literature, visual art, and architecture from England, Northern Europe, Italy, Ancient Greece, and Constantinople and from time periods ranging from antiquity to the beginning of the early modern period.Contributors are Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Paul Binski, Paroma Chatterjee, Andrey Egorov, Erik Gustafson, Duncan Hardy, Stephen Jaeger, Jacqueline E. Jung, Lynsey McCulloch, Martino Rossi Monti, Gavin Richardson, and Andrew Romig.

This concluding chapter synthesizes the research insights offered by this book on events, and presents future directions in event research.

This chapter presents the background to the conceptualization and organization of this book on events research themes, and introduces the individual chapters it contains.

Give your students practical solutions on how to cope with and adapt to the evolving media landscape. News media experts Samir Husni, Debora Halpern Wenger, and Hank Price incorporate real-world case studies, important theoretical grounding, and a focus on understanding rather than resisting the customer's desire for choice and control within an unbeatable resource for students and managers about in this changed media business landscape.