... 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Conferences Diversity Inclusion Power Social capital Knowledge management … The lack of research into them [conferences] may have arisen from our fear, as academics, of what we may find if we look too closely...

... by small-scale art festivals with a creative tourism element in terms of increasing social capital and positive social change, from an event stakeholder perspective. Design/methodology/approach The identified gap in knowledge is addressed by using interviews and fieldnotes from participant observation...

...Richard Shipway; Naomi Kirkup; Peter W. Williams; Aliaa Elkhashab Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore social capital emerging from the collective set of activities pursued by a network of stakeholders leveraging tourism benefits from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic...

...Francesc González Reverté; Oriol Miralbell Izard Purpose This article aims to detail the scope of social capital (SC) in cultural events held in Catalonia and to analyze their tourism appeal. This study considers three elements of SC which play a role in event planning (motivation, internal...