Week 2- Classifying events by SIZE (Events)

Part 1 questions:

a) How are events categorised by this Council – what criteria do they use?

They are categorized with two headings, this is charity and community/ this is usually ran by a charity . The council uses scales of fees to charge these two types of events. Fees are used to cover penalties

b) Why do Councils need to categorize events in this way?

So that they can get a fair way of ppl attending the event and to engage with the local communities so that they can put enough income in for them to provide the parking for events. The money collected will be invested in the local parks. The council will compare fees to those of nearby areas. The fees are used as an environmental impact for using the parks. The reason why the council categorize it in this way is so that other organizers do it the correct way and organize a successful event.

PART 2 questions:

The largest events are often called mega-events. 

a) Find a definition of a mega-event in an events textbook, noting the source. 

The term ‘mega-event’ refers to those events that take place for a global media audience and/or that have significant, long-term impacts on economies and societies. These can also be seen as larger events. Source from- An Events Management, 4th edition, Charles Bladen, James Kennell, Emma Abson, Nick Wilde

b) Identify the different aspects of size contained within this definition.

‘Like the Olympics’ and the ‘world expos’ . These are examples of where governments invest in these immensely so that they can contribute the social and global change. there are numbers of millions of people attending these events which makes them so ‘mega’, they can be successful for the economy for example when the UK had the London Olympics on in 2012, it made the UK invest a lot around them as there were so many ppl globally attending to watch the Olympics games that is a mega event.

c) Give some examples of events that would match this definition.

  • 2012 London Olympics

  • Football world cup

  • The Great Exhibition of London: the 1851 Great exhibition

  • The commonwealth games