Event Management Flashcards
Event
To the customer or guest, a special event is an opportunity for a leisure, social or cultural experience outside the normal range of choices or beyond everyday experience
Events Categorization
- Leisure Events
(Leisure, sport, recreation)
- Cultural Events
(Ceremonials, folklore)
- Organizational Events
(Commercial, political, sales)
- Personal Events
(Weddings, birthdays)
Events Characteristics
- uniqueness:
- perishability
- ambience
- labour-intensiveness
- fixed timescale
- intangibility
- ritual and ceremony
- personal interaction
Determinants and Motives
- Social Motives:
- interaction with others
- creation of community spirit
- Physiological Motives:
- relaxation, recreation
- physical challenge
- to eat, to drink
- Organizational Motives:
- the need to make sales
- sponsorship or community support
- Personal Motives:
- seeking new experiences
- learning, education
Infrastructure of Event Business
- Governmental Support
•European Union and national government departments responsible for tourism
- National tourist organizations
- National trade associations
- Regional and local tourist offices
- Educational institutions
- Commercial Support
- Event management companies
- Production companies
- Event catering companies
- Party planners and professional events organizers
- Voluntary Support
- Committees
- Individuals (amateurs or professionals)
‘pear-shaped’
Description of something which goes wrong or turns into a shambles.
break-down
That part of the close-down activities of an event after load-out, when the final jobs of site clearance and dismantling of infrastructure are taking place.
capacity
The maximum number of people who can be accommodated at a venue.
conference
A meeting whose purpose is the inter-change of ideas.
seminars
Describes small gatherings similar to the break-out sessions, where a group, but not the whole plenary, will discuss an issue
Implications of Events
- Economic
implications
- Developmental
implications
- Political
implications
- Social/Community
implications
show
A full sequence of sets, or more simply, the event itself, in terms of musical, artistic or similar activities
convention
A conference gathering of greater importance, size and formality; perhaps with more than 300 people in attendance
corporate hospitality
Inviting groups of people, usually clients of a company or high profile organization, to public events
gig
A concert of rock, pop, house or other popular musical style.
