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Strategic sports event management / Guy Masterman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009Edition: Second editionDescription: xxii, 354 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1856175235
  • 9781856175234
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.0694 22
LOC classification:
  • GV713 .M38 2009
Contents:
The sports event industry -- Event organizations -- The sports event planning process -- Impacts and legacies -- Financial planning and control -- Event revenue maximization -- The bidding process -- Event implementation -- Marketing planning and implementation -- Innovative communications -- Sports event sponsorship -- Research and evaluation.
Summary: "The hosting of sports events - whether large international events, or smaller niche interest events - has huge and long-lasting impacts on the local environment, economy and industry. Strategic Sports Event Management: Olympic edition provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and nature. The framework offers a planning process that can be used to understand the importance of a strategic approach, and shows how to implement strategies that can achieve successful sports events over the short and long-term. The text uses new international case studies throughout to offer real-world insight in both larger and smaller events. Plus, in this new Olympic edition, we see the introduction of a Beijing Olympiad case study in each chapter. Through this topical and timely addition to the text, we can understand the lessons to be learned by events mangers of events of all sizes."--Publisher's website.
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Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 796.0694 MAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A455968B

Previous ed.: Oxford : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The sports event industry -- Event organizations -- The sports event planning process -- Impacts and legacies -- Financial planning and control -- Event revenue maximization -- The bidding process -- Event implementation -- Marketing planning and implementation -- Innovative communications -- Sports event sponsorship -- Research and evaluation.

"The hosting of sports events - whether large international events, or smaller niche interest events - has huge and long-lasting impacts on the local environment, economy and industry. Strategic Sports Event Management: Olympic edition provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and nature. The framework offers a planning process that can be used to understand the importance of a strategic approach, and shows how to implement strategies that can achieve successful sports events over the short and long-term. The text uses new international case studies throughout to offer real-world insight in both larger and smaller events. Plus, in this new Olympic edition, we see the introduction of a Beijing Olympiad case study in each chapter. Through this topical and timely addition to the text, we can understand the lessons to be learned by events mangers of events of all sizes."--Publisher's website.

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