Developing a Successful Infrastructure for Convention & Event Tourism

ISBN-13: 9780789037527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 164 str.

Robert R. Nelson

Opis

To be successful in today's convention & event tourism market, communities need to provide a complete package that includes quality lodging, affordable transportation, restaurants, entertainment, & tourist appeal. This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges of developing larger infrastructural needs.

Spis treści

• What Are Cities Really Committing to When They Build a Convention Center? (J. Dana Clark)
• Public Financing of Headquarter Hotels in the United States (Robert R. Nelson)
• The Rhetoric of Financial Decision Making: An Analysis of Public Discourse Concerning the New Washington Convention Center (Daphne A. Jameson)
• Estimating the Economic Impact of Event Tourism: A Review of Issues and Methods (Nancy M. Hodur and F. Larry Leistritz1)
• Measuring the Economic Impacts of Convention Centers and Event Tourism: A Discussion of the Key Issues (Ash Morgan and Simon Condliffe)
• Convention and Exhibition Center Development in Korea (Myong Jae Lee and Kyong Mo Lee)
• Kelo: Is It Much To Do About Nothing? (JeAnna Abbott)
• Convention Centers as Staging Grounds for Disaster Recovery: Lessons Learned from 911 and Katrina (Marvin J. Cetron, Fred J. DeMicco, Robert R. Nelson, Warren L. Reuther, and John A. Williams)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Robert R. Nelson