International Journal of Event and Festival Management: Volume 5 Issue 1

Predicting visitors’ satisfaction and behavioral intentions from service quality in the context of a small-scale outdoor sport event

George Tzetzis, Kostantinos Alexandris, Sophia Kapsampeli

– The purpose of this paper is to test if the service quality model, proposed by Shonk and Chelladurai (2008), can be applied in the context of a small-scale sport event.

Sense of community and perceptions of festival social impacts

Christine M. Van Winkle, Kyle M. Woosnam

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between psychological sense of community (SOC) and perceived social impacts of festival events.

Utilising ethnography and participant observation in festival and event research

Dewi Jaimangal-Jones

The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues surrounding the use of ethnography and participant observation in event studies. It considers the role and benefits of…

Contextualizing phenomenology in event management research: Deciphering the meaning of event experiences

Vassilios Ziakas, Nikolaos Boukas

Although the core phenomenon of events is the experiences and the meanings attached to them, there is limited management research on the experiential, existential and ontological…

Semiotic representations of Olympic mascots revisited: Virtual mascots of the games 2006-2012

Peter Knight, Ina Freeman, Stephen Stuart, Gerald Griggs, Norm O’Reilly

– The purpose of this paper is to review Olympic mascots in the electronic and traditional communications environments.

Editorial

Jack Carlsen and Judith Mair