Residents’ Support in Major Local Events: Leeds Pride

451 Address correspondence to Nikolaos Pappas, London School of Hospitality and Tourism, University of West London, Ealing, W5 5RF, London, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Cheng, & Qin, 2013, p. 245). The hosting of events has an impact on long-term tourism, and it benefits the local economy and its host population by job creation, income generation, investment attraction, extension of the tourist season, destination promotion, and creation of tax revenues (Deccio & Baloglu, 2002). Thus, the participation of all stakeholders with special reference to host community is required (Kruger & Heath, 2013). Still, major event decision making and planning involves a predominantly political planning approach, which allows little input from local residents, whereas the more Introduction