EVNT2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Event Management, Urban Renewal, Destination Marketing Organization
Document Summary
Evnt2000 fundamentals of event management- semester 2, 2017. Event studies, event tourism, event management- discourses on planned events: know definitions, what do they mean, how are they related/not related, why are meanings important to the event experience. Classification of event types: know classification diagrams, discourses of planned events & within events literature. Look at examples from discussions of frameworks etc. Event studies: an interdisciplinary field that studies all planned events, and meanings attached to events and their experience (encompassing event management and event tourism) Event management: an applied, professional field devoted to understanding and improving the management of planned events. Event tourism: an applied field devoted to understanding and improving tourism through events. Demand definition of event tourism: travellers motivated by an event, or willing to attend an event while traveling. Supply definition of event tourism: planning, development, marketing of events as tourist attractions, image makers, place marketers, catalysis and animators.
