The Business of Events Management

The organisers said the charity behind the three-day event that was due to take place this month has ‘ceased trading and is in the process of going into administration’ One of Cornwall’s most popular music festivals has suddenly been cancelled. Organisers have announced that they have pulled the plug on the sold-out Looe Music Festival …

New experiences, great food and yoga have become a big draw as audiences demand more for their money

British Marine, which organises and owns the London Boat Show, has announced that the 2019 Show, due to run at ExCeL London from 9-13 January 2019, will not take place. This decision was made after independent research by exhibition experts, Zing Insights, showed there was insufficient support from a large proportion of the marine industry …

After 44 years as a Memorial Day Weekend tradition, the Sacramento Music Festival is ending. Organizers of the event made the announcement today citing diminishing audiences, increased costs and heavy competition.

Having cycled through a full generation of performers (not to mention audience), how does the grandpa of festival culture compete in the Coachella-sized market it helped create?

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How hard is it to mount a successful art exhibition? Gallery bosses and show designers tell Anna Seaman about the process that goes into making a show a success for artists, galleries and visitors

Triumphant return to Timbuktu of famed music festival blocked after al-Qaida attack in northern Mali

Edinburgh Festival, the world’s largest theatrical showcase, a market for buyers and promoters from all around the world, turns 70 next year. Responsible for 24 spaces, from 40 to 780 capacity, about 95 percent of which weren’t built with events anywhere close to their agenda, the Pleasance Theatre Trust, is the big festival venue operator …

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe continues to grow in popularity, with organisers of the event stating that its official audience has grown by almost a million in less than a decade. The Scotsman newspaper noted that this year’s festival, which concluded on Monday, sold 2,838,839 tickets, with almost half of those having been sold i

Manchester always puts on a show and this year's Parklife didn't disappoint

Dubai is splashing tens of billions of dollars on infrastructure and hospitality projects related to the international trade fair Expo 2020,

For the third consecutive year, the economic impact of the Oregon Brewers Festival (OBF) has declined, leading festival organizers to say that changes are coming in 2018. The 2017 edition of the five-day Portland, Oregon beer festival, one of the oldest and most well-attended in the U.S., generated an estimated $23.9 million in economic impact, an 18 percent decline from the previous year.

Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival has become the world’s biggest arts extravaganza. Some say it is too big, too costly and maybe even too funny.

How mega-gatherings like South by Southwest are rewriting the rules for conferences by making them citywide extravaganzas.

Why the rock gods of the past are headlining elsewhere as they are dropped from line-ups at US music events

Without a proper structure outside of the government’s coat tails, the Lagos City Marathon will not survive beyond this administration