Sunday, November 30, 2008
It is the end of the yellow brick road for an annual Wizard of Oz festival – after it became the latest victim of the credit crunch.
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis says the music festival will never lose its licence because it has become too important to the local economy.
“The local economy gets £100m a year,” he told Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
“So there’s no discussion about not allowing the festival a licence any more. They won’t stop it now.”
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
DUBLIN HAS beaten international competitors for the right to host the prestigious European City of Science meeting in July 2012.
The meeting, described as Europe’s Olympics of science, will bring an estimated 8,000 visitors to the city for the five-day event.
The city beat tough competition from Vienna, which for a time had been considered front-runner to [...]
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
A major rock festival scheduled for this weekend has become the latest casualty of the blockade of Suvarnabhumi Airport by anti-government protesters from the People’s Alliance for Democracy.
The Bangkok 100 Rock Festival 2008 had been billed as the biggest event of its kind in Southeast Asia this year by its sponsors, the beverage distributor [...]
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Donington Park is aiming to make the 2010 British Grand Prix a ‘car-free’ event, with the crowd arriving entirely by public transport.
The circuit’s chief executive Simon Gillett says the track will arrange bus links from nearly towns and cities, and encourage fans to fly into the nearby East Midlands Airport or use the new East [...]
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
A FESTIVAL is under threat after strict new conditions were added to the licence last night.
It will be impossible to run Stokes Bay Festival next year with a raft of new restrictions that have been put in place, claims the organiser.
The Gosport Tories have pushed through new rules increasing the rent at the council-owned site [...]
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Five people have been arrested in London for allegedly taking part in a ticketing scam that left thousands fans without tickets they had paid for.
It is alleged that Xclusive Tickets Ltd and Xclusive Leisure and Hospitality Ltd took payment for tickets for events, including UK music festivals and the Beijing Olympic Games.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
Emergency services in Cumbria will form a priority risk list of all events after thousands of fell runners taking part in an organised event in the Lake District became stranded during atrocious weather last month.
Cumbria Local Resilience Forum, which is made up of the police, the ambulance service, the RAF and coastguard and the Primary [...]
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
National Eisteddfod management say the annual festival is facing a financial crisis unless the Welsh assembly government increases its grant by 40%.
The board say the grant of £488,000 needs to be boosted by a further £188,000 if the event is to continue in its current form.
It follows an independent report into the festival’s finances which [...]
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Monday, November 24, 2008
The feeling at The Showman’s Show this year was one of enthusiasm and optimism from both exhibitors and visitors alike. There was a buzz around the showground from early Wednesday morning that continued until the last visitor left on Thursday afternoon. Lance Show & Publications Ltd, organisers of The Showman’s Show, played host [...]
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Monday, November 24, 2008
Sustainable events came a step closer to reality today with the announcement of the UK’s most comprehensive implementation programme for the new British Standard, BS 8901 on Sustainable Event Management. Ranging from large corporate companies through to small and medium sized enterprises, the ten organisations participating in the programme come from every part of the [...]
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Friday, November 21, 2008
G4S Events, the specialist events division of G4S Security Services (UK), has won a SportBusiness Sports Event Management Award for its security and stewarding services to The Derby Festival at Epsom Downs Racecourse, and The Championships, Wimbledon .
The award was presented to Mark Hamilton, Managing Director of G4S Events, at the [...]
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Friday, November 21, 2008
The global recession may be biting, but try telling that to the Hollywood celebrities and billionaire business moguls who attended the opening of Dubai’s latest luxury resort, The Atlantis.
The £15 million extravaganza was the most spectacular – and the most expensive – launch party in history.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The Association Of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) have proposed that venues and promoters should pick up the total bill for policing live events.
Under current legislation stands only police officers inside venues and festival sites are being paid for by events organisers.
However, ACPO have told the Home Office that they want to charge football clubs and [...]
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Hop Farm festival bosses are set to appeal the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council’s decision to deny their application to increase the event’s capacity.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
As one of the UK’s top DJs and music festival promoters Rob Da Bank is more familiar with disco balls than crystal balls.
But when it comes to forecasting the outlook for next summer’s festival scene, he is just one of several industry experts warning that many of the UK’s 500 or so events face an [...]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
The current economic gloom has pushed local businesses to trim Christmas events and party budgets, management and business support training organisation, BizTech said on Monday.
Hotels and restaurants were reporting a lag in bookings as corporate clients either eliminated or planned budget year-end events.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Adopting sustainable practices can help the industry beat the credit crunch by saving organisers money, according to an expert.
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