Search Results for event volunteering

Event volunteering : international perspectives on the volunteering experience at events / edited by Karen Smith, Leonie Lockstone-Binney, Kirsten Holmes and Tom Baum.

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by Smith, Karen A., 1973-, editor of compilation
Call Number 658.456 EVE
Publication Date 2014
Summary "Volunteers make important contributions across the spectrum of event settings, most visibly at high profile mega events such as the Olympic Games where volunteers are lauded as 'Games makers', 'unsung heroes' and the like. Less visibly volunteers are the heart and soul of community events and festivals, often undertaking multi - faceted roles from event leadership through to operations, ensuring that these celebrations are made possible in the absence of big budgets and professional event staff. This book is the first to showcase and advance international research into the volunteering experience at events, drawing on the work of key scholars in this field. Events of all sizes benefit from volunteer support but event volunteering research is frequently case study-based and individually these cases make a limited impact. This text brings together cases from around the world, specifically including those that expand theoretical and methodological boundaries. It features mega events like the 2012 Olympics and the 2011 Rugby World Cup, alongside music festivals and sports events. New areas that are examined include the benefits of event volunteering for students, the role of volunteers in social enterprise events and new methodological approaches to researching this phenomenon, specifically ethnographic and cross-national studies. This innovative book acts as a global source of key information for practitioners and researchers, an important text for students of event management and will provide stimulus for further work in this emerging area"--
Format: Regular print

Humans, Horses and Events Management.

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by Dashper, Katherine.
Call Number 394.2068
Publication Date 2021
Summary This book explains the process of managing a multispecies event, as well as the larger theoretical implications of event management, using the National Championships of the Icelandic Horse as an extended study.
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The Impact and Evaluation of Major Sporting Events [electronic resource].

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by Preuss, Holger.
Call Number 658.456 IMP
Publication Date 2013
Summary The aim of politicians is to attract new investment to their city or region in order to develop infrastructure such as telecommunications, transportation, housing or even sport and entertainment facilities. Sporting events are also intended to achieve intangible ends such as a better image, more know-how, stronger networks, emotional commitment and additional cultural benefits and enhanced identity. All these so called 'event structures' can improve sites in a city/region by strengthening certain location factors. They may improve general living conditions in the longer term and also boost the income of citizens by attracting new businesses, tourists, conventions or new events. Finally they may foster economic growth at the city, regional or national level.This collection is of particular interest for anyone who intends to enter a bidding process for a major sporting event. It offers the host of an event a good introduction to the potential ways to generate economic benefits and will enhance understanding of the economics behind major sporting events.This book was previously published as a special issue of European Sport Management Quarterly
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Accessibility, inclusion, and diversity in critical event studies / edited by Rebecca Finkel, Briony Sharp, Majella Sweeney.

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by Finkel, Rebecca, editor.
Call Number 394.2 ACC
Publication Date 2019
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Hospitality and Tourism 2015 [electronic resource] : Proceedings of HTC 2015 (Malacca, Malaysia, 2-3 November 2015)

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by Jamal, Salamiah A.
Call Number XX(157041.1)
Publication Date 2015
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Managing Volunteers in Tourism [electronic resource].

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by Holmes, Kirsten.
Call Number 338.47910683
Publication Date 2012
Summary Recent years have seen an explosion in research on tourism volunteering. Volunteers are an essential part of tourism, whether they are volunteering in their local museum, at a sporting mega-event, as an airport ambassador, or travelling the global as a volunteer tourist. Managing Volunteers in Tourism reviews the latest research to highlight the key management issues and relate them to the tourism volunteering context. It includes previously under-researched forms of tourism volunteering such as meet-and-greeters, surf life-savers, conservation, festival, and information centre vol
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The Routledge handbook of events [electronic resource].

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by Page, Stephen, 1963-
Call Number 658.456 PAG
Publication Date 2012
Summary The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with this rapidly expanding discipline. It brings together leading specialists from range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on the evolution of the subject. It is the first major study to examine what events is as a discipline in the twenty-first century, its significance in contemporary society and growth as a mainstream subject area. The book is divided in to five inter-related sections. Secti
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Accessibility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Critical Event Studies.

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by Finkel, Rebecca.
Call Number 394.2
Publication Date 2018
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