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JOURNAL OF TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE 105 Fabian Frenzel Lecturer in the Political Economy of Organisation, School of Management, University of Leicester, UK ff48@le.ac.uk http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4929-2449 © 2016 Fabian Frenzel https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2016.1237955 Focus on world festivals: contemporary case studies and perspectives, edited by Chris Newbold and Jennie Jordan, Oxford, Goodfellow Publishers Limited, 2016, 333 pp., $56.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-910158-56-2 The edited book Focus on world festivals has contributions from practitioners and academics from a range of backgrounds in the events and cultural industries. The book has a strong prac- tical focus and details the significance of festivals to the place they are held and history. The book is organized into three sections: (1) Understanding events; (2) Managing festivals: Policy, impact and people; and (3) Using festivals: Culture and identity. There are a few theor- etical chapters and a range of conceptual points addressed across the chapters and there was a strong distribution of cases from around the world – covering a few cases in all major world regions. The following paragraphs of this review will discuss some of the major themes and cases of the three sections. Section 1, Understanding Events, includes six chapters with cases looking at France, Norway, Venice,