International Journal of Event and Festival Management: Volume 12 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Ubaldino Sequeira Couto, Brendon Knott, Julie Whitfield

The role of literary festival attendance in generating attendees' health and well-being

Giulia Rossetti

This paper examines the under-investigated well-being outcomes of literary festival attendance. It is an exploratory study into how a festival contributes to attendees' overall…

The development, implementation and challenges to water-saving practices in a water-stressed destination: a case study of the Songkran Festival, Thailand

Montira Intason, Willem Coetzee, Craig Lee

The contradiction between the purpose of the water-splashing tradition, the use of water in a water-stressed destination and overconsumption during a time of water shortage led…

Quality education: industry contributions to embed sustainability in a meeting and event management curriculum

Esti Venske

With the global adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), it has become increasingly important for educators to develop a responsive curriculum where…

Event technology for potential sustainable practices: a bibliometric review and research agenda

Krzysztof Celuch

This research provides a bibliometric review of the state-of-the-art information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of events, and maps out an agenda for future…

Volunteer experiences at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games

Pam Kappelides, Shane Barry, Eunjung Kim, Liz Fredline, Graham Cuskelly

This article assesses how the human management practices of recruitment, selection, orientation, training and recognition enacted by the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games…

Conceptualising event value co-destruction and developing a future agenda for events research

Johannes Hogg, Kim Werner, Kai-Michael Griese

Value co-destruction has received little attention in an event-related context. This appears surprising, given that the interactions among actors at an event may also reduce the…