Annual City Festivals as Tools for Sustainable Competitiveness: The World Port Days Rotterdam

Tuijl, Erwin van; Berg, Leo van den

doi:10.3390/economies4020011

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“…Meyer et al [98] proposed that the sustainable development of Rotterdam must establish links between strategies, projects and participants. Van Tuijl and van den Berg [5] believed that a great social value could be produced for Rotterdam by holding an annual city festival-World Port Day (WPD)-to show citizens the port and its related industrial activities. Table 5.…”

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“…Its connotation emphasizes the coordinated development of the environment, economy and society, and effectively combines environmental protection and human development [2][3][4]. The city itself plays a key role in sustainability, because it is not only an important engine of economic growth, but also puts tremendous pressure on the environment while facing huge challenges from society [5]. With the acceleration of urbanization processes, the population of the city has exploded, and the size of the city has become larger and larger.…”

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Port City Sustainability: A Review of Its Research Trends

2020

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In recent years, with the development of society, the awareness of environmental protection for people has been increasing. While ports promote the economic development and employment levels of port cities, they also have a negative impact on the environment of port cities. The sustainability of port cities is increasingly valued. Port cities face huge challenges, and their sustainability needs to be better understood. The purpose of this article is to review research on the sustainability of port cities. We used content analysis to classify and analyze the existing relevant literature, to learn about the hotspots and deficiencies of past research, and to propose future research directions. We found that port sustainability has become an increasingly important research topic during the past ten years. From the perspective of geographic research areas, European port cities are the hot spots for sustainability research. Regarding research fields, technologies, methods and measures to promote the sustainability of port cities are popular research topics. In terms of research methods, qualitative research plays an important role in the study of port city sustainability. Finally, guidance for future research on port city sustainability is proposed according to the review results.

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Port City Sustainability: A Review of Its Research Trends

2020

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“…Many large festivals are held every year around the world, such as Oktoberfest Bavaria, the Great British Beer Festival [1], World Port Days in Rotterdam [2], as well as various music, film, art, and cultural festivals across the globe [3]. Festivals have become one of the attractive factors of global cities [4], bringing new impetus to urban tourism and economic development [5].…”

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Influence of Festival Activities on Enterprise Production Behavior: A Case Study of the China Bamboo Culture Festival

Li,

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At the present stage, China’s ecological civilization construction has entered a strategic period focusing on carbon reduction, which is also a critical period for achieving the improvement of ecological environment quality. The prosperity of bamboo culture and the development of the bamboo industry are of great significance in promoting the construction of an ecological civilization in China. Festival activities often have lasting impacts on the development of the host city. They not only promote urban development but also spur the growth of local enterprises in related industries. However, these impacts have been rarely explored by researchers. This paper analyzes how festival activities influence the behavior of host city enterprises from the perspective of stakeholders with a theoretical model. Taking the China Bamboo Culture Festival as an example, micro-data on bamboo enterprises in 1999–2015 were collected from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database and analyzed with a theoretical model to empirically verify the influence of the festival over the production behavior of bamboo enterprises. The research shows that the China Bamboo Culture Festival has a significant positive impact on the total output value and total factor productivity of bamboo product enterprises, which in turn affects the production behavior of the enterprises. In the host province/city, the enterprises that engaged in the festival surpassed the other enterprises by 1.0764% in terms of gross output; export enterprises were less affected by the festival than domestic market enterprises. The China Bamboo Culture Festival makes bamboo enterprises more sustainable and competitive in the industry, and the holding of festival activities enhances the sustainable development capabilities of enterprises by improving their business environment. In addition, significant differences were observed between enterprises in different geographical locations, of different ownerships, and in different subdivided industries. Enterprises in the eastern region are least affected by the China Bamboo Culture Festival, while those in the western region are the most impacted; those in the central region fall in the middle by the degree of influence. Bamboo, rattan, palm, and grass products are influenced by the China Bamboo Culture Festival, while the production of other manufacturing industries is basically unaffected.

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