Table of Contents

What are events?; The impacts of events; Event tourism planning; Conceptualising the event; The planning function; Human resource management and events; Strategic marketing of events; Sponsorship of events; Project management for events; Control and budgets; Risk management and legal issues; Logistics; Staging events; Evaluation and research; Issues and trends.

About the Author

Glenn Bowdin is Head of the UK Centre for Events Management, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Johnny Allen is Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Event Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. William O'Toole is an international events development specialist. He assists councils, cities, regions, countries and companies to grow their events portfolio and create their long term events program. For last five years he advised the Supreme Commission for Tourism in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the development of their new festival program in the thirteen provinces. Bill trains and assists the United Nations event organisers in places such as the Sudan and Uganda and is facilitating the development of the event industry in Kenya. He is a founding director of the Event Management Body of Knowledge and key advisor to the International Event Management Competency Standard. He has two international event textbooks released and the information and checklists on his CDROM ELMS (www.epms.net), are used by events and venues around the world to manage their events. Rob Harris is Director of the Australian Centre for Event Management and Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Ian McDonnell is Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.