Abstract: this article considers event tourism as a professional practice. The article presents an analysis of the evolution and development of event tourism, focused on the chronological and evolutionary aspects. The event industry is a dynamic and fast-growing sector with obvious interaction with tourism. With proper placement, events can help expand the economy of visitors, cover media, promote development and stimulate infrastructure modernization, including the emergence of new partnerships. In addition, the article focuses on constraining and driving forces, ontological achievements, materials from key journals on emerging topics and issues. Events are valuable tourist attractions: they serve as catalysts for change and image makers for business (congresses, exhibitions, etc.) and travel in your free time (sporting events and cultural festivals, etc.). Clear links between the main events and tourism are obvious, therefore, many cities, regions and countries have identified event tourism as a priority in the framework of long-term tourism strategies. Events play a role in enhancing the attractiveness and competitiveness of a destination, as they complement an array of attractions, but it equally emphasizes that events can only enhance the attractiveness of a destination by supporting quality infrastructure for specific events and supporting infrastructure, as well as effective marketing and promotion. Creating related experience on events makes sense outside the event – it makes sense economically for everyone.
A study by the authors shows an expanding interest in event tourism. Nowadays, the more and more active social contribution of science to this interdisciplinary field of research, which is proclaimed as promising in terms of the possibility of achieving success in terms of its popularization in research activities, as well as its contribution to the development of tourism in the commercial arena, is also evident.
Keywords: event tourism; event tourism research; tourism economics; ontology of tourism; economic development; tourism