Purpose Despite the recognition that citizens' perceptions of mega sport events' social
impact is critical for the sustainable development of these events and host cities, most …

Phantasmagorical contexts, wherein the ineffable and the quasi-mystical emerge through
encounters with the material, the mediated, the sensual and the affectual, have received …

Ageing populations call for ways of facilitating active healthy ageing. Engagements with
nature can positively affect well-being and healthy ageing, but challenges remain to move …

Olympic cities increasingly draw on New Urban Tourism (NUT) principles as part of a host's
strategic tourism development objectives. By doing so, governments and event organisers …

Although walking methodologies (WMs) and machine learning (ML) have been objects of
interest for urban scholars, it is difficult to find research that integrates both. We propose a …

In this research article, we employed an autoethnographic data-walk methodology to
explore the complex relationship between urban spaces and digital data collection, using …

The aim of this article is to examine how smaller operational actions and decisions
contribute to the effective leveraging of the sport event resource. It is an empirical article …

We investigate the live staging spatial-organisational requirements of the Rio 2016 Olympic
Games, exploring the extent to which the project sequestrated, territorialised and …

Olympic event zones are characterized as being intensely formally regulated during live
staging periods, producing exclusionary environments blamed for sidelining host community …

Within Japan, Japanese hospitality or omotenashi is seen as distinct from
'western'hospitality, which is seen as a transactional service, focusing on the provision of …