Changes in the wider environment have triggered a new normal for event creation. Strategic Event Creation is the contemporary text that recognises and articulates this changed reality for students and professionals. It moves away from an older paradigm of simply making events work and managing inputs to show a sector that now needs to be: outcome obsessed, stakeholder centric, strategically focused and driven by strategically aware reflective professionals.

The first text to move away from an older paradigm of simply ‘making events work’ and managing inputs, to show how to manage a sector that now needs to be: outcome obsessed, stakeholder centric, strategically focused and driven by strategically aware reflective professionals.

Strategic event planning is about data and analytics. It's about creating goals that will tell you if your event served the purpose it was meant to serve or if it flopped. You need to understand the data you can gather at your events and whether or not you're tracking what you need to track. In this book, the author clearly and definitively demonstrates how companies seeking a competitive edge can follow the "Discovery Process" and embrace strategic event planning. Dramatically transform your meetings to deliver quantifiable ROI and influence what your target audiences feel, think, say, and do. This book is a must-read for event professionals, CMOs, sales, or procurement executives-for anyone with bottom-line accountability. You'll gain the valuable insight you need to create a powerful paradigm shift within your organization

Strategic event planning is about data and analytics. It's about creating goals that will tell you if your event served the purpose it was meant to serve or if it flopped. You need to understand the data you can gather at your events and whether or not you're tracking what you need to track. In this book, the author clearly and definitively demonstrates how companies seeking a competitive edge can follow the "Discovery Process" and embrace strategic event planning. Dramatically transform your meetings to deliver quantifiable ROI and influence what your target audiences feel, think, say, and do. This book is a must-read for event professionals, CMOs, sales, or procurement executives-for anyone with bottom-line accountability. You'll gain the valuable insight you need to create a powerful paradigm shift within your organization

This book comprehensively describes, explains, critiques and refines our current perspectives of event leveraging and, in so doing, provides an analytic account of the subject area as a whole, as it concerns the strategic pursuit of attaining and magnifying benefits that derive from events. Encompassing all events including sport, cultural and business, it also covers all kinds of benefits that can be leveraged and lead to sustainability through triple-bottom-line assessment. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to cross boundaries and creates linkages among the parent disciplines (sport management; events, hospitality and tourism; leisure studies, parks and recreation) and general disciplines (management, marketing, sociology, anthropology, urban and regional planning). Building a truly global and transdisciplinary framework, the author provides direction and possibilities that can lead to new forms of leveraging, making this an excellent resource for researchers, practitioners and students interested in event management and policy, sport management, recreation and leisure, and hospitality, tourism and festival management.

A timely and up-to-date "go-to" reference work for business events, The Routledge Handbook of Business Events explores and critically evaluates the key debates and controversies inherent to this rapidly expanding subject of study and industry. The volume brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research on management aspects as well as economic, social and environmental impacts and external factors such as transportation. The book incorporates the varied expertise of some 30 expert authors to provide a definitive collection of statements in this field, accompanied by illustrative and engaging case studies embodying real-life scenarios and examples on an international scale. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers and academics of Events, as well as those of related studies in particular Tourism, Hospitality, Sport, Leisure, Marketing, Business and Development Studies.

Strategic event planning is about data and analytics. It's about creating goals that will tell you if your event served the purpose it was meant to serve or if it flopped. You need to understand the data you can gather at your events and whether or not you're tracking what you need to track. In this book, the author clearly and definitively demonstrates how companies seeking a competitive edge can follow the "Discovery Process" and embrace strategic event planning. Dramatically transform your meetings to deliver quantifiable ROI and influence what your target audiences feel, think, say, and do. This book is a must-read for event professionals, CMOs, sales, or procurement executives-for anyone with bottom-line accountability. You'll gain the valuable insight you need to create a powerful paradigm shift within your organization

The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with the rapidly expanding domain of Event Studies. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, to provide a state-of-the-art review on the evolution of the subject. The first edition was a landmark study which examined how event research had evolved and developed from a range of different social science subject areas and disciplines. The Handbook was the first critique of the extent to which the subject had developed into a major area of social science inquiry. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect crucial developments in the field and includes brand new sections on ever-important aspects of Event Studies such as: anthropology, hospitality, seasonality, knowledge management, accessibility, diversity and human rights, as well as new studies on ‘the eventful city’ and the benefits of events in older life. The book is divided into four inter-related sections. Section 1 introduces and evaluates the concept of events. Section 2 critically reviews the relationship between events and other disciplines such as the contribution of economics, psychology and geography to the critical discourse of Event Studies. Section 3 focuses on the business, operational and strategic management of events, while the final section crucially focuses on critical events as a new paradigm within the burgeoning literature on Events. It offers the reader a comprehensive and critical synthesis of this field, conveying the latest thinking associated with events research, edited by two of the leading scholars in the field. The text will provide an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in Events Studies, encouraging dialogue that will span across disciplinary boundaries and other areas of study. It is an essential guide for anyone interested in events research.

Fully updated and with new case studies throughout, this second edition reviews the way organizations use events to connect with their visitors. It covers the development of the experience economy, the steps from strategy to concept, event design and touchpoints. It also considers the areas of marketing within which experiences play a role, such as branding, relationship marketing and city marketing. Concluding with a chapter on effect measurement and evaluation, and including a wealth of internationally relevant examples, the book gives a thorough insight into the way events can help reach strategic marketing goals.

This book chronicles and champions the development, changes, and challenges faced by the global celebrations industry for event planners. New interviews are included with experienced event leaders to give a better understanding of the field. New chapters are included on green events, corporate social responsibility, and theoretical case studies. Event measurement, evaluation, and assessment topics are integrated throughout a number of the chapters. Over 200 new Web resources and appendices show how to save money, time, and improve the overall quality of an event. Event planners will also learn how technology may be harnessed to help them improve their events’ financial, quality, environmental and other strategic outcomes.