The Value of Events

John Armbrecht, PhD, is Head of the Centre for Tourism and Researcher at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his PhD in marketing and has mainly published research on experiential and non-use values within areas like cultural tourism, cultural economics and event and festival economics.

Erik Lundberg, PhD, is a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for tourism in the School of Economics, Business and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his PhD in 2014. In his thesis, he describes and analyses tourism and event impacts from a sustainable development perspective. He has published in journals such as Tourism Management, Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management and International Journal of Event and Festival Management.

Tommy D. Andersson, PhD, is Senior Professor in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Professor II at Molde University College, Norway. He received his PhD in managerial economics and has been interested in economic impact analysis, event management and cost-benefit analysis. Most of his publications are in the area of event research and food tourism research.

Donald Getz is Professor Emeritus, the University of Calgary, Canada, and is affiliated with Linnaeus University in Sweden. He is author of numerous articles on events, and the books Event Tourism (2013) and Event Studies (Routledge, 3rd edn,, 2016, co-authored with Stephen Page). Professor Getz acts as a management consultant to universities, cities and destinations in the fields of tourism and events, and participates in major research and development projects.