Outputs (2)

Overtourism, localisation, community, and placemaking: Edinburgh’s tourism and festivals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Leask, A. (2024, September). Overtourism, localisation, community, and placemaking: Edinburgh’s tourism and festivals. Presented at Edinburgh's Capital Group Event, Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University

The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L., & Leask, A. (2024, June). The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking. Paper presented at ATLAS Annual Conference 2024 Leisure & Tourism 2030: Navigating the Future, Breda, Netherlands

We will present initial findings from our research which considers how Edinburgh’s (UK) festivals and tourism sectors can deliver sustainable community engagement. Our study applies co-designed participative action research (PAR) (Goebel et al., 2020... Read More about The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking.