Dominic Medway

Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book analyses how places are represented in marketing and branding activities. In an increasingly competitive global contest to attract business investment, residents, and tourist visitors, the authors offer a critical evaluation of the different approaches adopted to represent places at various spatial scales. The book identifies consequent issues relating to the control, consistency, and clarity of place representation by synthesising the potential scope and breadth of such activities in a detailed and accessible way. Using a variety of case studies, Dominic Medway and Gary Warnaby consider the different symbolic forms which can be used for place representation including the toponym (i.e., the place name), flag, map, and icon. From a more managerial perspective they also discuss how places are represented via logos, experience, and the use of immersive technologies. Forward looking, Place Marketing and Branding examines current applications of emerging technologies and how these will be used in the future. This insightful book is an excellent resource for academics and researchers in a variety of fields including business and management, marketing, geography, urban studies and tourism, and place management. Practitioners in branding agencies, local public administration, and economic development will also find this book’s content informative and instructive.

This book is an accessible, practical, and systematic guide to stadium naming rights sponsorship within sport, designed to help practitioners and students gain a better understanding of how naming rights work and the benefits that sport and corporate organisations may get from this kind of arrangement. The book explains the key principles underpinning naming rights deals and sports sponsorship in non-specialist language for readers with little prior knowledge of the subject. Drawing on examples and case studies of naming rights sponsorships in international markets, across both professional and amateur sport, the book examines key practical issues such as how naming rights differ from other types of sponsorship, why brands should sign a naming rights deal, and how organisations can maximise their return on naming rights sponsorship. Concise, informative, and practice-focused, this book offers essential insights for all sport management practitioners, for any marketing executives considering sport sponsorship, and for any students or researchers with an interest in sport marketing, sport management, marketing, or events and facilities management.

This book is an accessible, practical, and systematic guide to stadium naming rights sponsorship within sport, designed to help practitioners and students gain a better understanding of how naming rights work and the benefits that sport and corporate organisations may get from this kind of arrangement. The book explains the key principles underpinning naming rights deals and sports sponsorship in non-specialist language for readers with little prior knowledge of the subject. Drawing on examples and case studies of naming rights sponsorships in international markets, across both professional and amateur sport, the book examines key practical issues such as how naming rights differ from other types of sponsorship, why brands should sign a naming rights deal, and how organisations can maximise their return on naming rights sponsorship. Concise, informative, and practice-focused, this book offers essential insights for all sport management practitioners, for any marketing executives considering sport sponsorship, and for any students or researchers with an interest in sport marketing, sport management, marketing, or events and facilities management.