Event Tourism and Sustainable Community Development: Advances, Effects, and Implications

Addresses the need to develop event tourism sustainably for effective local community development, examining its impact on sustainability, local culture and community, and community development. It covers rural and urban events, tourism during and after COVID-19, how event tourism impacts women’s empowerment, and more.

Ekta Dhariwal, PhD, is a social activist and Founder President of the NGO Aksham Kalyan Sansthan, India. She is a member of the Board of Management at the University of Kota, Rajasthan, India. She is a motivational speaker and has been invited to speak at various organizations and institutions. She has published several research papers in national and international journals. Dr. Dhariwal has been awarded a Sumatra Women Entrepreneurship Award in 2016 and Do Your Venture-Women Entrepreneurship Award in 2021 by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.

Shruti Arora, PhD, is currently working as a guest faculty in the Department of Commerce and Management, University of Kota, Rajasthan, India. She has 12 years of experience in education. Her core subjects are marketing, general management, international business management, and customer relationship management. She has attended various international conferences, and her publications include chapters in edited books published by Routledge and Emerald and research papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals. She has authored the book Event Management and Marketing: Theory, Practical Approaches and Planning in 2018 and edited the book Event Tourism in Asian Countries: Challenges and Prospects, published by Apple Academic Press.

Anukrati Sharma, PhD, is currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Commerce and Management, University of Kota, Rajasthan, India. Her core subjects are tourism, strategic management, general management, and international business management. She has edited the book Tourism Opportunities and Ventures. She has also edited Maximizing Business Performance and Efficiency through Intelligent Systems (IGI Global), Sustainable Tourism Development: Futuristic Approaches (Apple Academic Press); Tourism Events in Asia: Marketing and Development (Routledge); and Destination Branding and Marketing: Strategies for Tourism Development (CABI). Currently, she is working on book proposals under Emerald Publishing, U.K., including Overtourism: A Risk for Tourist Destinations: Impacts and Solutions, which will be the first book from India and probably sixth on the globe on the topic, and Handbook of Information Technology and Communication on Tourism and Hospitality. She is also working on the book Future of Tourism in Asia (Channel View Publications, U.K.). Dr. Sharma is a member of ten professional associations and has attended several national and international conferences where she has presented over 45 papers. She has been invited for many talks, lectures, and panel discussions by various universities, including the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; Halal Tourism Congress at the Republic of Turkey; Kastamonu University, Turkey; Silk International University of Tourism, Uzbekistan; International Development Institute, Pokhara, Nepal; Aligarh Muslim University, India; etc. She has been invited by the Government of Rajasthan and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry to deliver a talk on agri-tourism. Dr. Sharma takes training sessions at Rajasthan Police Academy, Jaipur, on the topics such as change management, communication skills, gender discrimination, personality development, etc.

Azizul Hassan is a member of the Tourism Consultants Network of the UK Tourism Society. Mr. Hassan’s areas of research are technology-supported marketing for tourism and hospitality, immersive technology application in the tourism and hospitality industry, technology-influenced marketing suggestions for sustainable tourism, and the hospitality industry in developing countries. He has authored over 100 articles and book chapters in leading tourism outlets. He is also part of the editorial team of 15 book projects from Routledge, Springer, CAB International, and Emerald Group Publishing Limited. He is a regular reviewer of Tourism Management, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Tourism Analysis, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Ecotourism, Journal of Business Research, eReview of Tourism Research (eRTR), International Interdisciplinary Business-Economics Advancement Journal, International Journal of Tourism Cities, Heliyon, and Technology in Society.