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From: greg <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: 14 December 2018 at 11:14:03 GMT
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Subject: ATLAS list CFP reminder: Event Experiences Special Issue of the Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events
Reply-To: greg <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Just a quick reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the special issue on Event Experiences is January 15th. So probably a good idea to submit something before Christmas/New Year/Kings get in the way!
Greg Richards
Call for Papers
Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events
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Special Issue on Event Experiences: Contextual Dimensions and Dynamic Measurement
Editors: Greg Richards and Vern Biaett
The experience of events has become a more widespread focus of research in recent years. Experiences are arguably at the heart of events, with Berridge (2012: 274) arguing that event management ‘is largely about delivery of experiences’ and Getz and Page (2016: 8) stating that ‘the essence of a planned event is that of an experience that has been designed’. In spite of the centrality of experiences, they have usually been studied implicitly rather than explicitly, and there has been a relative lack of comparative research on the experiences of visitors to different types of events or event settings.
The ATLAS Events Experiences Project is now beginning to produce survey data that compares events from different countries and settings (Richards and Ruiz Lanuza, 2017). This research is also beginning to throw up many new questions about the differences in visitors’ experiences of events, and the factors affecting them. Recommendations have been made for researchers to employ new and innovative methods to better understand the particulars of visitor phenomena in more universal contexts (Mair and Whitford, 2013) with ethnography and other forms of qualitative observation recently beginning to emerge as methods to better understand visitor’s experiential behaviour. There have also been calls for a more holistic approach to event experiences. For example, Liu, Sparks and Coghlan (2017) have suggested that an event experience needs to be seen as part of an overall ‘ecosystem’ in which visitor experience is affected by a number of different touchpoints.
For this special issue of the Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events we would like to invite papers that explicitly explore the way in which visitors experience events, through the collection of quantitative or qualitative data, or a combination of the two.
The main themes identified by the editors are:
• Events as producers of extraordinary, memorable, or optimal experiences
• The effect of event communities (including virtual communities) on experience
• The experience of virtual events
• Possible relationships between event experiences and event type (sports, culture, business, etc.)
• The effect of event content on experiences
• Sensual infusion and emotional experiences
• Event experiences and subjective well-being
• Event location and experience
• Co-created event experiences
• Knowledge and event experiences
• Experimental approaches to improving event experience
• Innovative methods in event experience research
• Holistic approaches to event experiences (event journey, triangulation of different methods)
We are also happy to consider other proposals related to the overall theme of the special issue.
How to submit an abstract
Authors wishing to publish papers in this special issue should send an abstract of 250 words to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by January 15th 2019.
Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be required to submit full papers of approximately 6,000 words (excluding abstracts) by July 1st 2019.
More information on the Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, including Instructions for Authors can be found here:
https://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rprt20&page=instructions
For more information, please contact either of the Guest Editors: Greg Richards or Vern Biaett.
Editorial information
Guest Editor: Greg Richards is Professor of Placemaking and Events at Breda University and Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Tilburg in The Netherlands. His recent publications include the SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies (with John Hannigan), Reinventing the Local in Tourism (with Paolo Russo) and Small Cities with Big Dreams: Creative Placemaking and Branding Strategies (with Lian Duif). Email: [log in to unmask]<http://buas.nl>
Guest Editor: Vern Biaett is an Assistant Professor and the BA in Event Management curriculum coordination at High Point University in North Carolina, USA. Two recent publications include Festivity and Attendee Experience: A Confessional Tale of Discovery in the Routledge Handbook of Festivals and Using Participant Observation with Socially Constructed Grounded Theory Method to Explore On-Site Guest and Visitor Behaviour in the Elgar Handbook of Research Methods for Tourism and Hospitality Management. Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
The ATLAS Event Experiences Project has been running since 2015, and project members have analysed a range of events in different countries, including Brazil, the USA, the UK and Poland. Discussions on event experiences have been held at a number of ATLAS Event Group meetings, including those held in Sheffield, Barcelona, Viana do Castelo and Copenhagen. More information on the project and the ATLAS Events Group can be found at:
https://independent.academia.edu/gregrichards#atlaseventsgroup
References
Berridge, G. (2012). Designing event experiences. The Routledge handbook of events, 273-288.
Coghlan, A., Sparks, B., Liu, W., & Winlaw, M. (2017). Reconnecting with place through events: Collaborating with precinct managers in the placemaking agenda. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 8(1), 66-83.
Getz, D., & Page, S. (2016). Event studies: Theory, research and policy for planned events. Routledge.
Mair, J., & Whitford, M. (2013). An exploration of events research: event topics, themes and emerging trends. International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 4(1), 6-30.
Richards, G. and Ruiz Lanuza, A. (2017). Experiencias turísticas de festivals y eventos. Colección PASOS edita, nº 17. Tenerife: El Sauzal. ISBN: 978-84-88429-xx-x. 131pp.
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