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For courses in Meeting, Event, Exposition and Convention Planning and Management for hospitality or business students. Event Management is packed full of “true to life” examples of events across the nation-illustrating all the skills needed to become a successful event manager. From this book students will learn how to design, plan, market, and stage an event. In addition, readers will learn how to manage staff and staffing problems and to ensure the safety of everyone involved. Topics will also discuss what is needed for legal compliance, risk management, financial control and successful event evaluation. Salient Features Comprehensive Coverage. Provides students with the knowledge needed to completely manage a successful event. True-to-life examples and photographs-Of a wide variety of successful, as well as unsuccessful events from across the nation. Addresses current trends of the industry as well as help students analyze what went wrong in unsuccessful cases. Student Development Activities-At the end of each chapter. These fun, interesting, and pertinent activities help students to think and act as a professional event manager based on the knowledge that they have acquired from studying that chapter. Case Study-For each chapter. Provide “food for thought” and provoke student participation-further testing a students knowledge and skills. Links-At the end of every chapter, a list of links to added information that support the principles and ideas presented in that chapter. By following some of the links the entire world is opened to the student, far beyond what can be contained in one book.