AEME (Association for Events Management Education)

This resource guide focuses on the Olympic Games.  Extract from The Structure of This Guide, "The vast majority of material identified here is either academic books or articles from peer reviewed, popular journals. Material which takes an uncritical position towards the Olympics, as well as that which is more questioning of the Games (and of the IOC in particular), is included." (Dart, 2006, p. 1)

Reference: Dart, R. (2006). Resource guide to the Olympic Games. Oxford, HE Academy HLST Network. 

Extract from introduction, "As the Event Management industry has grown it has emerged as an academic discipline with an increasing number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Event managers must consider the impacts of an event throughout each stage of the planning process and beyond. Event impacts also tax the minds of funding organisations and policy makers in order to justify public spending on events and to justify any negative externalities. The majority of bids for large-scale events such as the London 2012 Olympics are now won on the regeneration opportunities which hosting the event will offer. Thus, events management literature, especially in the academic journals, has tended to be dominated by studies of event impacts.

This guide aims to direct tutors, students and researchers to the key texts, journal articles and web-resources in order that they might unravel the diversity of event impacts and their interrelationships. Given the inherent research nature of assessing event impacts much of the literature on this topic is based in research journals rather than text books. Therefore the content of some of the material listed in this resource guide may be more appropriate to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students rather than first and second year undergraduates. However, many of the standard events management text books cover event impacts. These texts are listed at the start of the bibliography and provide an accessible resource for undergraduate students." ( Dickinson & Shipway, 2007, p. 1)

Reference: Dickinson, J. & Shipway, R. (2007). Resource guide to the impact of events. Oxford, HE Academy HLST Network.

Extract from introduction, "One thing that the Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism sectors have in common is that they all exist to provide consumers with experiences. Figure 1 shows a range of examples of "experience" products offered, all of which aim to provide something extraordinary, something which will stand out from everyday life and from all the competition for people's spare time and disposable income.

This guide aims to provide teachers and students with key readings and concepts that will help them analyse these experiences and evaluate the management activities involved in designing and staging them. It brings together two strands of literature about experiences, one from management and the other from the consumer perspective." (Morgan & Watson, 2007, p. 1)

Reference: Morgan, M & Watson, P. (2007). Resource Guide in Extraordinary Experiences: Understanding and Managing the Consumer Experience in Hospitality, Leisure, Events, Sport and Tourism. Oxford, HE Academy HLST Network. 
 

Extract from introduction, "This guide is intended to assist those involved in the delivery of modules relating to the cultural sector either at an introductory level, at Level 3 as part of a module on current issues or a Level M on a specific Cultural Policy module. The guide predominantly refers to sources on cultural policy within an international, European and UK context.

The guide is intended to relate to the practical dimensions of current cultural policy practices and current issues and does not generally include material relating to the field of cultural studies which is a distinct discipline focussing on theoretical dimensions. However, some of the key texts which provide sociological and theoretical underpinning have been included in the annotated bibliography, as have relevant policy documents that are available online." (Wilson, 2006, p. 1) 

 

Reference: Wilson, L.-A. (2006). Resource guide to  

Extract from introduction, 'The subject area of events management is progressing as a discipline, with an increasing number of qualifications being offered with ‘events’ in the title. In addition, anecdotal evidence suggests that there are hundreds of modules covering the principles of events management within hospitality, tourism and leisure courses, together with coverage in PR and business related courses.

This resource guide has been developed to direct academics who teach events management towards sources of information that can inform and develop their teaching, therefore improving the quality of their teaching, learning and assessment in relation to events management. It is worth noting that, at the time of writing, there are moves to launch a subject association for events management education in order to provide an academic home for people teaching this subject – please contact the author should you be interested in being kept informed of developments in this area.' (Bowdin, 2003, p. 5).

Reference: Bowdin, G.A.J. (2003) Events management: resource guide. Oxford, HE Academy HLST Network.