Visitor Attractions and Events : Locations and Linkages (Hardcover)

Section I : Introduction: The visitor attraction and event sectors

1. Introduction: The visitor attraction and event sectors

2. Events, visitor attractions, and the event attraction continuum

(Adi Weidenfeld and  Anna Leask)

3. Spatial Clustering and Agglomeration of Visitor Attractions

4. The Visitor Attraction Life Cycle:  Changing relationships between attractions in tourism destinations

Section II: Economic and management aspects of the visitor attraction sector

5. The appeal, attractiveness and compatibility of visitor attractions

6. Cooperation in the visitor attraction sector

7. Competition in the visitor attraction sector

8. Knowledge Transfer in the visitor attraction sector

9. Innovation in the visitor attraction sector

Section III: Implications and trends in the visitor attraction sector

10. The impacts of visitor attractions and events

11. Visitor Attractions as Icons and Flagships

12. Visitor attraction marketing and tourism destination branding ? Implications for marketing practices

(Peter Bjork and Adi Weidenfeld)

13. Visitor attractions, recent and future trends: a practitioner perspective 

(Ken Robinson CBE)

14. Conclusions