ABSTRACT

This book provides events management students with an accessible and essential introduction to project management.

Written by both academics and industry experts, Events Project Management offers a unique blend of theory and practice to encourage and contextualise project management requirements within events settings. Key questions include: What is project management? How does it connect to events management? What is effective project management within the events sector? How does academic theory connect to practice? The book is coherently structured into 12 chapters covering crucial event management topics such as stakeholders, supply chain management, project management tools and techniques, and financial and legal issues. Guides, templates, case study examples, industry tips and activity tasks are integrated in the text and online to show practice and aid knowledge.

Written in an engaging style, this text offers the reader a thorough understanding of how to successfully project manage an event from the creative idea to the concrete product. It is essential reading for all events management students.

chapter 1|21 pages

Project manage ment for events

chapter 2|22 pages

Suppliers and supply chains

chapter 3|15 pages

Stakeholder rela tion ships

chapter 4|22 pages

Structures and teams

chapter 5|23 pages

Event manage ment project tools

chapter 6|29 pages

Event market ing and promo tion

chapter 7|21 pages

Technology and sustain ab il ity

chapter 8|22 pages

Event manage ment law and legis la tion

chapter 9|20 pages

Cost and finan cial plan ning

chapter 10|27 pages

Plan analysis and risk

chapter 11|26 pages

Problem solving and decision making

chapter 12|24 pages

Project comple tion and review