Purpose: There are two main aims of this conceptual paper. The first is to explore the issues associated with staging events in public spaces, and to produce a typology of different event spaces. The second is to explore if and how events should be designed into parks, streets and squares and...

There has been a remarkable rise in the number of urban arts festivals in recent decades. The outcomes of cities' engagement with arts festivals, however, remain little understood, particularly in social and cultural terms. This article reviews existing literature on urban festivals and argues...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Part 1: Context -- 1. Introduction: Second Homes, Curse or Blessing? Revisited -- 2. Second Home Tourism Impact, Planning and Management -- Part 2: Mobilities, Encounters and Meanings -- 3. The 'Cottage' Privilege: Increasingly Elite...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Changing Places: The Local and the Global in Tourist Communities -- 1. 'If It Wasn't for the Tourists We Wouldn't Have an Audience': The Case of Tourism and Traditional Music in North Mayo -- 2. Defining the Local: The...

This chapter explores notions of authenticity in terms of the photographs taken by tourists while on holiday. Some tourists photograph attributes of the host’s culture that they perceive as “authentic”, while ignoring, editing, or erasing aspects that conflict with their “imagined”...