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Level 4 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management

Destination Impacts of Events

THM405 · Events Management — Week 10 of 16

CourseTHM405
Week10 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Destination Impacts of Events

  1. Economic multipliers versus leakage
  2. Urban regeneration and physical infrastructure legacies
  3. Socio-cultural pride and disruption
  4. Environmental strain and resource depletion

What you will be able to do

  • 4.1 Evaluate the range of impacts that events can have on tourism destinations.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate the range of impacts that events can have on tourism destinations.

Study materials

Videos

  • What Is Economic Leakage In Tourism And Why Is It So Bad For The Tourism Industry? · YouTube · Dr Hayley Stainton | Tourism Teacher · 10 min · for registered students
  • Economic Impacts Of Tourism That We ALL Need To Know! · YouTube · Dr Hayley Stainton | Tourism Teacher · 15 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Tourism: The International Business (Mill, 2010), ch. 6: Why develop tourism? · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 130–149 · for registered students
  • Cultural Heritage Tourism Event Planning and Management (Gilley, Lumen/LibreTexts) · Reading · Libretexts, textbook · for registered students
  • GSTC Destination Criteria v2.0 with performance indicators and SDGs (2019) · PDF · Other, framework · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Classification and Scale of Events
  • Week 2: Interrelationships in the Visitor Economy
  • Week 3: Event Typologies in Tourism and Hospitality
  • Week 4: Event Venue Evaluation and Selection
  • Week 5: Commercial Benefits of Staging Events
  • Week 6: The MICE Industry Ecosystem
  • Week 7: Characteristics of MICE Segments
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: External Drivers and Trends in MICE
  • Week 10: Destination Impacts of Events
  • Week 11: Managing and Mitigating Event Impacts
  • Week 12: Applying Events Management in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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