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democratised technological channels, have led to profound shifts in the balance of the global
economy. Attempting to explain this geopolitical shift, commentators and academics have
introduced terms such as the ‘Chinese Century’ (Beckley, 2012; Brands, 2018; Hartley, 2008;
Hongling, 2015; Pan, 2013; Stiglitz, 2015), the ‘Pacific Century’ (Borthwick, 2018; Scott,
2008) and the ‘Asian Century’ (Atonopoulos, 2017; Morrison, 2014). Taken together, these
terms describe the move towards a world economy centred increasingly on the Asia-Pacific
region, where emerging and resurgent economies are coming to play a more assertive role in
the development of international trade, public diplomacy and security. In particular, the
People’s Republic of China (PRC) has recently become the 2nd largest economy in the world,
and is poised to become the world’s largest economy by 2030 (Kennedy, 2018).
There has been a rapid, recent growth in events management education in the Asia-
Pacific region. Large numbers of students from across this region now study abroad in the
institutions that have dominated events management research in the UK, Australia and the
USA, and competition to recruit these students is fierce. Increasing numbers of papers are
being published in international journals by academics from institutions across the Asia-
Pacific, and a new generation of events management academics from the region can now be
The aim of this special issue is to consider the impact of these macro-level changes on
the events industry and research into events, and to help to address a geographical, but also an
ideological and cultural, imbalance in events management research, which has tended to focus
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on the traditionally dominant global economies of North America, Western Europe and
Australasia (Kim & Kaewnuch, 2018; Robertson et al., 2018; Spracklen & Lamond, 2016).
Recent research has begun to engage with this new context in areas as diverse as education
(Werner et al, 2018), events and public diplomacy (Wang, 2018), regional development
(Hussain, et al., 2018), the growth of the Chinese events industry (Liu & Lou, 2018) and mega
The implications of these, and related developments for research and practice have yet
in the related fields of tourism and hospitality, and in other academic areas. This special issue
aims to address this by becoming a reference point for future scholarship in events management
Anticipated themes
Papers for this special issue should engage with the context of the Chinese Century, and
the implications of this for events management research and practice. Relevant, recently
published research has include the following thematic areas, suggesting that they are worthy of
• Mega-Events
Guest editors:
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James Kennell, Mingguang Liu,
Email: lmg_001@zisu.edu.cn
Manuscript submission
Authors should submit to James Kennell (j.s.kennell@gre.ac.uk). In the first instance, authors
should submit an abstract for consideration and feedback, according to the timeframe below.
Timeframe
Peer review
This journal operates a double-blind review process. All contributions will be initially assessed
by the editor for suitability for Event Management. Papers deemed suitable are then typically
sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the scientific quality of the
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paper. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of
articles. The Editor’s decision is final. This journal uses double-blind review, which means the
identities of the authors are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa.
Manuscripts
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[Note: always provide citation page number(s) for quoted material.] Include in the reference
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Gitelson, 1994) or (Crompton, 1979, p. 411) (for quoted material). Note that names are to be
Journal article: Crouch, I. G. (1994). The study of international tourism demand: A review of
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Book citation: Witt, E. S., & Witt, C. A. (1992). Modeling and forecasting in tourism. London:
Academic Press.
Book chapter in edited book: Frechtling, C. D. (1994). Assessing the impacts of travel and
tourism: Measuring economic benefits. In J. R. Brent Ritchie & C. R. Goeldner (Eds.), Travel,
tourism, and hospitality research (2nd ed., pp. 367–391). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Internet Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (2009). The
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