The COVID-19 pandemic created a global hiatus for events and festivals. The mandate for entire countries to stay at home and limit social interactions resulted in a significant number of events and festivals being either postponed, cancelled, or adapted to a virtual format. The closure of businesses, festivals and cultural activities due to COVID-19 imposed a significant social and economic loss to the city of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Festivals consists of 11 recurring events held in the city each year. The most famous of these events are the August festivals, which include the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF), Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival and the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. This project extends existing work done to establish a new model for examining the festival and event lifecycle using a case study of Edinburgh\u2019s festivals (Holmes & Ali-Knight, 2017). The research undertaken throughout the summer and autumn months of 2021, examines the impacts of COVID-19 on festivals in an eventful destination and how festival managers have responded to the ongoing pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was funded by The Business School – Edinburgh Napier University<\/a>, as part of the Post-COVID Recovery, Innovation, Technology and Digital Transformation and Communities and Societal Challenges funding call and was a collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Curtin University<\/a> in Perth, Australia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10479,"parent":0,"template":"","report_topics":[515,504,518],"class_list":["post-10478","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","report_topics-digital-futures","report_topics-financial-management","report_topics-reporting-and-evaluation"],"yoast_head":"\n