Contemporary Issues for Events
Claire Drakeley, Tim Brown
ISBN: 9781915097866 Hbk; 9781915097873 Pbk; 9781917433181 eBook
DOI: 10.23912/9781915097866-5968
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The events industry is continuously adapting to new paradigms and landscapes, which creates an ongoing influx of new challenges to be overcome and managed. Understanding and evaluating these issues and challenges is vital to for event managers to successfully navigate the contemporary environment. Event professionals must be equipped with the skills and awareness required to make changes, evaluate and respond.
Contemporary Issues in Event Management is designed to build knowledge, enhance management learning, and develop practitioner/academic expertise in optimizing considerations and responses to current and emerging issues. It adds to the ongoing critical event studies catalogue and dialogue, by discussing and investigating four key themes of fast-moving and highly significant factors in the field of events management:
Bringing together a team of expert international contributors who use real life case studies to contextualise, it provides the reader with a one-stop shop to all key areas of change and growth within the events industry.
About the Editors: Claire Drakeley is Senior Lecturer in Events Management and Programme Leader for the BA(Hons) Events Management course at the University of Northampton, UK. Tim Brown is an Associate Professor and Head of Division for Marketing and Professional Development at Chester Business School, University of Chester, UK, specialising in teaching and researching Events Management.
Publication: April 2025
Contemporary Issues in Event Management is designed to build knowledge, enhance management learning, and develop practitioner/academic expertise in optimizing considerations and responses to current and emerging issues. It adds to the ongoing critical event studies catalogue and dialogue, by discussing and investigating four key themes of fast-moving and highly significant factors in the field of events management:
- Emerging practices in events
- Advancing event operations
- Engaging stakeholders
- Evolving employment practices
Bringing together a team of expert international contributors who use real life case studies to contextualise, it provides the reader with a one-stop shop to all key areas of change and growth within the events industry.
The Event Management Theory and Methods Series examines the extent to which mainstream theory is being employed to develop event-specific theory, and to influence the very core practices of event management and event tourism. Each compact volume introduces the theory, show how it is being used in the events sector through a literature review, incorporate examples and case studies written by researchers and/or practitioners, and contain methods that can be used effectively in the real world.
With online resource material, this mix-and-match collection is ideal for lecturers who need theoretical foundations and case studies for their classes, by students in need of reference works, by professionals wanting increased understanding alongside practical methods, and by agencies or associations that want their members and stakeholders to have access to a library of valuable resources. Series editors: Donald Getz PhD., Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary, Canada and Vassilios Ziakas, Principal, Leisure Insights Consultancy, Leeds, UK.
With online resource material, this mix-and-match collection is ideal for lecturers who need theoretical foundations and case studies for their classes, by students in need of reference works, by professionals wanting increased understanding alongside practical methods, and by agencies or associations that want their members and stakeholders to have access to a library of valuable resources. Series editors: Donald Getz PhD., Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary, Canada and Vassilios Ziakas, Principal, Leisure Insights Consultancy, Leeds, UK.
About the Editors: Claire Drakeley is Senior Lecturer in Events Management and Programme Leader for the BA(Hons) Events Management course at the University of Northampton, UK. Tim Brown is an Associate Professor and Head of Division for Marketing and Professional Development at Chester Business School, University of Chester, UK, specialising in teaching and researching Events Management.
Publication: April 2025
Table of contents
Ch 1 Multiplicity of events: towards a new model of events in practice (Tim Brown)Ch 2 Metaverse: A new communication for sports events (Sardar Mohammadi and Seyyed Iman Ghaffarisadr)
Ch 3 Virtual assessments: Tools for enhancing event management employability (Truc H. Le, Rawan Nimri and Leonie Lockstone-Binney)
Ch 4 Staging an edutainment event through experiential learning: Idea-cation in Macao (Ubaldino Sequeira Couto and Weng Si (Clara) Lei)
Ch 5 Lessons learned from two Mexican cultural festivals during times of uncertainty (Driselda P. Sánchez-Aguirre, Domingo Martínez & Ana Laura Olvera)
Ch 6 Exploring industry standards for outdoor events (Andrew Lansley)
Ch 7 Eco-friendly event venues: Navigating sustainable choices for gatherings (Jarina, Sarah Hussain, Deepak)
Ch 8 Medical provision at live events: Is there a doctor in the house? (Claire Drakeley, Ashley Garlick, Gary W. Kerr and Karen Radcliffe)
Ch 9 Stakeholder mapping, modelling and management in festivals and events (Kevin Wallace and Eleni Michopoulou)
Ch 10 Hashtag engagement in local events (Boyu Lin)
Ch 11 EDI in the events industry (Charlotte Rowley)
Ch 12 Employment practices in events: Precarious working conditions and risks of severe exploitation (Claudia Macaveiu)
Ch 13 Race to equality (Katie Shaughnessy and Kevin Chambers)
Index
Table of contents
Ch 1 Multiplicity of events: towards a new model of events in practice (Tim Brown)Ch 2 Metaverse: A new communication for sports events (Sardar Mohammadi and Seyyed Iman Ghaffarisadr)
Ch 3 Virtual assessments: Tools for enhancing event management employability (Truc H. Le, Rawan Nimri and Leonie Lockstone-Binney)
Ch 4 Staging an edutainment event through experiential learning: Idea-cation in Macao (Ubaldino Sequeira Couto and Weng Si (Clara) Lei)
Ch 5 Lessons learned from two Mexican cultural festivals during times of uncertainty (Driselda P. Sánchez-Aguirre, Domingo Martínez & Ana Laura Olvera)
Ch 6 Exploring industry standards for outdoor events (Andrew Lansley)
Ch 7 Eco-friendly event venues: Navigating sustainable choices for gatherings (Jarina, Sarah Hussain, Deepak)
Ch 8 Medical provision at live events: Is there a doctor in the house? (Claire Drakeley, Ashley Garlick, Gary W. Kerr and Karen Radcliffe)
Ch 9 Stakeholder mapping, modelling and management in festivals and events (Kevin Wallace and Eleni Michopoulou)
Ch 10 Hashtag engagement in local events (Boyu Lin)
Ch 11 EDI in the events industry (Charlotte Rowley)
Ch 12 Employment practices in events: Precarious working conditions and risks of severe exploitation (Claudia Macaveiu)
Ch 13 Race to equality (Katie Shaughnessy and Kevin Chambers)
Index