Thursday, September 2, 2010
Many event organisers are waiting until the last-minute to book events, with cost considered as the deciding factor in the final venue choice by more than half of event organisers, according to new findings released today.Filed Under: Technology 3 Comments
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Leading events organiser and former private secretary to the First Minister, Joan Serafini, will be the guest speaker at a lecture this month to the first group of 40 Stevenson College students to study the HNC Events course. An audience of 60 students from the Events and Administration courses will be given an insight into [...]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
SHE may not have been running but Jean Summerhayes finished the Cardiff Half Marathon in style yesterday. The 64-year-old event organiser will retire in July after working for Barnardo’s Cymru for more than 30 years. She will be taking a back seat at next year’s event as she hands the phenomenal task of organising the [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
One of the busiest years on record for business tourism in Sheffield has boosted the city’s economy by more than £12m. New research carried out by Sheffield International Venues (SIV) shows the economic benefit of events hosted across its portfolio of 14 facilities in the city in the last financial year equates to £12.7m. The [...]
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Those involved in the events industry will soon be the star players on their own stage – instead of being involved in planning someone else’s big day. ‘In Any Event’ is being held at the Europa Hotel, Belfast, on October 6 and will be a showcase, demonstrating that NI now has the services, venues and [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
Square Meal will bring a social networking element to its award-winning exhibition by hosting an event industry ‘Tweetup’ (a drinks reception exclusive to Twitter users) at its fifth annual ‘Square Meal’s Venues & Events’ show. The networking event, hosted by Venues & Events editor Annica Wainwright and her team, will be held as part of [...]
Friday, September 11, 2009
A leading IT consulting company, has today announced that stress-free events are now only a click away thanks to its partnership with on-demand event management provider, EventElephant. Kainos‘s Web delivery team provided the technical and project management skills to oversee and build the EventElephant site which went live in January this year. Since then the [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A NEW online resource developed by Edinburgh Napier University will allow festival organisers to analyse the impact their events have on local communities. The tool is designed to help festival operators ensure they cater for the needs of local people when they are planning events. It is also expected that the resource will be useful [...]
Monday, June 22, 2009
Michael Eavis, the Glastonbury founder, will stand down as the music festival’s organiser in 2011 to make way for a “new generation” The 73-year-old Somerset farmer, who launched the festival 39 years ago, said he plans to hand over the reins to his daughter Emily and her fiance. Previously, he said he would keep going [...]
Monday, June 1, 2009
TAKING a break from organising East Anglia’s biggest music festival, the man behind Latitude visited north Suffolk last week to open a new play area. Melvin Benn Melvin Benn, managing director of Festival Republic, opened the new outdoor activity area at Brambles nursery in Reydon, near Southwold, which has been part-funded by the Latitude festival. [...]
Monday, January 12, 2009
THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe will today finally begin moves to hire a new head as part of a massive shake-up of the way the event is run. An international recruitment drive for the first chief executive in the event’s 62-year history has been unveiled – five months after the festival was taken to the brink [...]
Monday, January 12, 2009
AN ANNUAL show which attracts thousands of visitors into Tonbridge every May has been saved after a new organiser came forward. The Tonbridge Garden and Home Show has taken place on the May Day bank holiday just off the town’s High Street for the past 14 years, but organiser Susan Adams announced in October that [...]
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
A NEW cycling event is being launched in Liverpool especially for women. The first Pedal it Pink, organised by the Breast Cancer Campaign, will take place in Sefton Park on Sunday, April 19, and local women are being encouraged to register for the event. The fundraiser has a variety of cycle routes, from a 5k [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
Birmingham-based events specialist Big Cat Group has been awarded the contract to manage the UK premiere of British independent film Clubbed. The event will be held in January at Birmingham’s Cineworld cinema on Broad Street. Set in the 1980s and inspired by Bafta-winning Coventry author and ex-bouncer Geoff Thompson’s autobiography Watch My Back, the film [...]
Monday, December 15, 2008
With 150 million users worldwide Facebook has become of one of the most popular social networking websites. Event-Jobs.Net has developed an application that integrates with Facebook to allow Facebook members to access the latest jobs from the event industry via there very own facebook page or profile. In addition to this, Event-Jobs.net launched its own [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The organizers of the 2012 London Olympics want to use shorter sessions to allow more fans to see more events. “In Beijing they had five-hour beach volleyball sessions,” London 2012 organizing committee chief executive Paul Deighton told legislators Tuesday. “It was a great event but we will shorten it so it increases the risk of [...]
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The campaigning Left Field Stage will no longer feature as part of Glastonbury Festival. Festival chiefs have pulled the plug on the 5000-capacity tent, describing the move as another twist in Glastonbury’s continued evolution. A spokesman told efestivals: “Although the Left Field area will not be happening next year in its current format, Glastonbury always [...]
Sunday, December 7, 2008
A Lapland-style attraction in the West Midlands has been cancelled days after a similar event in the New Forest shut. Lapland West Midlands, which was due to open near Essington, Staffordshire, promised “an enchanting experience” with huskies, reindeer and an ice show. A notice on the promoter’s website said it was not opening due to [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
THE licences of nearly 10,000 private security guards are set to be revoked within weeks, jeopardising crowd control at pubs, sporting events and concerts in the new year. The guards have until January 8 to meet stringent new training requirements or be struck off the Security Industry Register operated by NSW Police. The move affects [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Organisers blame West Berkshire Council for the decision to move the Glade festival out of the area AN ANGRY backlash has begun among Glade festival fans after organisers blamed West Berkshire Council for the decision to quit the area. A statement released this week by one of the festival team, Anselm Guise, said: “We are [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
ORGANISERS of the Lapland New Forest Christmas theme park were today under investigation after more than 1,300 people complained about the controversial attraction. The surge of anger from visitors who feel they were ripped off has been described as unprecedented by trading standards officers who have visited the site near Ringwood and are studying promotional [...]
