ABSTRACT
Academic researchers need to get together and gather strength, to review the status and progress and to map out future endeavors in event impact research. Event bidding may present potential solutions to a range of social, cultural and possibly also environmental urban and regional problems and has become more important for destinations. This chapter discusses a prevailing weakness among many event evaluations in clearly identifying the object of the analysis. It focuses on the object of economic welfare and how events can contribute to the community. The chapter attempts to extend the impact assessment of events to cover all three major objects of study: economic, sociocultural and environmental impacts. Event bidding may present potential solutions to a range of social, cultural and possibly also environmental urban and regional problems and has become more important for destinations. The chapter also focuses on methodologies to assess the object of social benefits in terms of residents' perception of a film festival.
