A comprehensive and illuminating account of event and festival management. Written with academic rigour yet highly accessible, Bernadette Quinn is an astute judge of what students want and need to study in this field

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”...