Event Studies: Theory and Management for Planned Events

by Donald Getz, Stephen J. Page

Fully updated and revised in its fifth edition, Event Studies remains the most comprehensive book devoted to developing knowledge and theory about event management and event tourism, focusing on the study of events, the event experience, and meanings associated with them. International in scope and embellished with useful figures and tables throughout, the authors carefully examine current forces, trends, and issues, including impacts of the pandemic. All the major types of planned events are profiled, with emphasis on their forms, functions, experiential dimensions, meanings, and values. This book’s framework encompasses antecedents, planning and design, outcomes and impacts, and the various patterns and processes that influence the events sector, including policy. New and expanded topics in the fifth edition • Content has been substantially reorganised to give much more attention to establishing theoretical foundations and advocating principles for the core management functions. • New content on gender studies, human rights, crisis management and resilience, sustainability, and events as agents of change. • Expert opinion boxes cover major educational philosophy; technology and its impacts; human rights and mega-events; virtual events and agile management; trends in corporate events; happiness and well-being; event portfolios management; civic dramaturgy; event design; trends in communications, including new media; dynamic crowd management; overtourism; and event-sector recovery. • Additional chapters on design, policy, management fundamentals, planning and operations, event tourism, and the inter-related management challenges of risk, security, health and safety, and environment. This insightful volume will be an invaluable resource for all undergraduate students of events studies throughout their degree programmes.

498 pages, Paperback

Published January 24, 2024

Reviews

[Dmitry · Rating 1 out of 5]

(The English review is placed beneath the Russian one)

Скучная и малополезная для практики энциклопедия, в которую авторы включили все, что касается заявленной темы. К примеру, я устал читать уже в самом начале, когда авторы долго и нудно перечисляли какие существуют типы событий (ярмарки, фестивали, спортивные соревнования и пр.), а также какие существуют типы посетителей. Читатель буквально тонет в море незначительной информации и таких же малозначимых тем, которых в книге огромное количество, но каждой из которой посвящается очень короткое объяснение.

По существу, авторы не проводят собственного исследования, а создают энциклопедию, базирующуюся на сторонних источниках. В принципе, я так и не понял, на кого же ориентирована книга. Для профессионалов в книге очень много несущественных тем, которые к тому же объяснены поверхностно. Для тех же читателей кто совсем ничего не знает о данной теме, книга покажется скучно из-за обилия тем и плохого объяснения оных.

В общем, самоочевидность и отсутствие фокуса на какой-то одной теме, а так же не умение писать кратко, но ёмко, являются главными недостатками этой книги. Я просто не вижу, кому может пригодиться эта книга. Но это точно не для людей, которые либо уже занимаются организацией мероприятий либо только учатся этому. Для этой категории читателей книга слишком не глубока, слишком поверхностна, хоть авторы и рассматривают все темы, какие только возможны.

A boring and unhelpful encyclopedia in which the authors have included everything that relates to the stated topic. For example, I got tired of reading at the very beginning, when the authors long and tediously listed what types of events exist (fairs, festivals, sporting events, etc.) as well as what types of visitors exist. The reader is drowning in a sea of insignificant information and equally insignificant topics, of which there are a huge number in the book, but each of which is devoted to a very short explanation.

In essence, the authors do not conduct their own research but create an encyclopedia based on third-party sources. Basically, I never understood who the book was aimed at. For professionals, the book has a lot of irrelevant topics, which are explained superficially. For those readers who know nothing at all about the subject, the book will seem boring because of the abundance of topics and poor explanation of them.

In general, the self-evidence and lack of focus on any one topic, as well as the inability to write concisely but succinctly, are the main flaws of this book. I just don't see who could benefit from this book. But it's not for people who are either already organizing events or just learning how to do it. For this category of readers, the book is too shallow, and too superficial, even though the authors cover every topic possible.