Korea will have hosted 13 international mega-events by 2018. The rationale for attracting an event to Korea is often its economic impact, namely, induced production, income, and employment effects. These effects are estimated by one of the state-run research institutes using the Leontief...

The evolution of special events into a free-standing industry is a debatable statement in the academic field literature. From this perspective, the article tries to offer legitimacy to special events industry concept through its framing and argumentative explanation in the economic theoretical...

At the beginning of the 21st century, events tourism witnessed an impressive development in a series of countries due to the increase of the spare time and of the people’s income, to the cheaper and more diversified world transport, especially the air transport and due to the emergence of new...

The purpose of research presented in this paper is to determine how selected characteristics of a city event affect the satisfaction of visitors. In particular, the aim is to identify factors related to event atmospherics that determine visitor satisfaction in the city destination in continental...