Contemporary issues in events, festivals and destination management.

Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Contemporary issues in events, festivals and destination management -- Thematic trends in event management research -- Event innovation induced corporate branding -- "We've never measured it, but it brings in a lot of business" -- Sport mega-events and nation branding -- Enhancing destination competitiveness through disability sport event legacies -- Identifying antecedents and outcomes of festival satisfaction -- How to create a profitable boothscape? -- The event and festival life cycle - developing a new model for a new context -- The effects of festival attendees' experiential values and satisfaction on re-visit intention to the destination -- In pursuit of an environmentally friendly convention industry.