About

I am Senior Lecturer in Event Management at the Centre for Contemporary Hospitality and Tourism. My research interests include event tourism, event portfolio design, placemaking, strategic storytelling and cultural anthropology. 

Research interests

• Event Design and Event Experience
• Creative placemaking
• Event Tourism 
• Event Portfolio planning and management
• Storytelling in business

Recent publications

Books

• Ziakas, V., Antchak, V., & Getz, D. (2021) Crisis Management and Recovery for Events: Impacts and Strategies, Oxford, England: Goodfellow Publishers
• Antchak, V., & Ramsbottom, O. (2020). The Fundamentals of Event Design. Abingdon, England: Routledge
• Antchak, V., Ziakas, V., & Getz, D. (2019). Event Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice for Event Management and Tourism. Oxford, England: Goodfellow Publishers

Book chapters

• Gorchakova, V., & Antchak, V (2021). The Eventful Tourism City. In: Morrison, A., & Coca-Stefaniak, A. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities
• Jones, S., & Antchak, V. (2019). Five Senses in Event Design In: Antchak, V., & Ramsbottom, O. The Fundamentals of Event Design. Abingdon, England: Routledge
• Vokacova, Z., & Antchak, V. (2019). Sector focused Approach to Business Events in Manchester In: Antchak, V., Ziakas, V., & Getz, D. Event Portfolio Management: Theory and Practice for Event Management and Tourism. Oxford, England: Goodfellow Publishers

Journal articles

• Antchak, V., Lück, M. and Pernecky, T. (2021). Understanding the core elements of event portfolio strategy: Lessons from Auckland and Dunedin, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 33(7), pp. 2447-2464
• Antchak, V., & Adams, E. (2020). Unusual venues for business events: Key quality attributes of museums and art galleries, International Journal of Tourism Cities
• Antchak, V. (2018). City rhythms and events. Annals of Tourism Research, 68, 52-54
• Antchak, V., & Pernecky, T. (2017). Major events programming in a city: Comparing three approaches to portfolio design. Event Management, 21(5), 545-561
• Antchak, V. (2017). Portfolio of major events in Auckland: Characteristics, perspectives and issues. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, Vol 9(3), 280-297

Book reviews

• Antchak, V. (2020). Small Cities with Big Dreams: Creative Placemaking and Branding Strategies. Tourism Management
• Antchak, V. (2019). Marginalisation and events, Annals of Leisure Research

Qualifications

• PhD in Tourism and Events (AUT University, New Zealand)

Recent conferences

• ATLAS Annual Conference, September 2021, Prague, Czech Republic;
• ATLAS Annual Conference, September 2019, Girona, Spain;
• Tourism Naturally Conference, June 2019, Buxton, UK;
• ATLAS Annual Conference, September 2017, Viana do Castello, Portugal
• ATLAS Events Group Meeting, May 2016, Barcelona, Spain
• AEME Annual Conference, July 2016, Buxton, UK
• ATLAS Annual Conference, October 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

Experience in industry

I have over ten years of experience in events management, including the organisation of business workshops, conferences, cultural exhibitions, international business visits and presentations. The geography of completed projects includes Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, North-West regions of Russia, Moscow and St Petersburg. Some events were initiated or supported by international organisations such as UNDP (United Nations Development Programme), OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and European Commission. The transition from business sector to higher education provided me with an excellent opportunity to integrate practical knowledge into learning activities and to develop effective learning environment to guide and support students.

Teaching responsibilities

• Eventful Societies
• Event Tourism
• Ethnography of Festival Consumption

I support the principles of soft-system methodology. It is an action-oriented process of exploration of a problematic situation and taking actions to improve it. I construct lectures and practical tutorials around real-life industry challenges. I try to find a balance between researching, which informs my teaching, and teaching, which provides me with a chance to test some of the research hypotheses, while involving students in the process of exploration and critical analysis.