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Sustainable Event Management: Social Inclusion, Community Involvement, and Technology Innovation in Event Design

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 21392

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Guest Editor
Department of Apparel, Merchandising, Interior Design, and Hospitality Management in the College of Human Sciences and Education at North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, 58104, USA
Interests: Quality of life in event management; event goers’ spending; disability inclusion

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Division of Administration and Economics (Hospitality Management), The Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies, St. John’s University, Queens, NY 11439, USA
Interests: Customer experience management; tourism marketing; social media analytics / big data analysis; event management; quality of life; tourism for disabled travelers

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable event management is to design and manage an event economically, socially, culturally, and environmentally responsible by making efficient decisions in the planning, organization, and execution of an event. Sustainability should be practiced in all levels of event management to ensure that an event is hosted responsibly and leaves positive legacies that benefit local communities. Sustainable event management can be achieved by analyzing the needs and values of diverse stakeholders that are directly or indirectly impacted by the event. The focused area of sustainable event management has not drawn much attention among scholars, although it has never been enough merely to stress on the importance of the sustainability in event management. The guest editor would like to take this opportunity to bring significant attention among event management scholars and practitioners of sustainability in event management by proposing this Special Issue. I would like to cordially invite scholars to contribute an article to the Special Issue titled “Sustainable Event Management.”

Potential topics of sustainable event management include but are not limited to

  • Inclusion in event management
  • Quality of life in event management
  • Community involvement in event management
  • Responsible sourcing in event management
  • Environmental and social issues in event management
  • Economic and social impacts of events
  • Safety and health issues in sustainable event management
  • Social media marketing in event management
  • Monitoring and evaluation of events

Dr. Kwangsoo Park
Dr. Seunghyun “Brian” Park
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Disability inclusion in event management
  • Well-being and events
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Impacts of events

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Sustainable Event Planning: An Exploration of University Conference Centers
by Madeline Samuel, Hyunsuk Choi, Haesang Kang and Myong Jae Lee
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7194; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137194 - 26 Jun 2021
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The use of conference services on university campuses has grown in recent years. Focusing on three university conference centers in Southern California in the United States, this study explores innovative practices, tools, and strategies that sales and marketing teams can use to attract [...] Read more.
The use of conference services on university campuses has grown in recent years. Focusing on three university conference centers in Southern California in the United States, this study explores innovative practices, tools, and strategies that sales and marketing teams can use to attract potential clients to campus facilities. A Delphi method with a panel of eight sales and marketing experts from three university conference centers was used to examine tools and strategies used by university conference centers. The findings reveal that email marketing, tradeshows, and social media are effective marketing tools to show that universities are an economical option for meeting planners, providing meeting attendees with the college atmosphere that they would not receive at a hotel. Detailed implications of results are discussed. Full article
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Disability, Sport, and Television: Media Visibility and Representation of Paralympic Games in News Programs
by Olga Kolotouchkina, Carmen Llorente-Barroso, María Luisa García-Guardia and Juan Pavón
Sustainability 2021, 13(1), 256; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13010256 - 29 Dec 2020
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With a few exceptions, media visibility and representation of people with disabilities is scarce. It is biased and anchored in stigma, distorting their image and hindering their full social participation. Paralympic sport is one of the social fields where the challenge of an [...] Read more.
With a few exceptions, media visibility and representation of people with disabilities is scarce. It is biased and anchored in stigma, distorting their image and hindering their full social participation. Paralympic sport is one of the social fields where the challenge of an objective representation of disability becomes particularly important due to the ever-increasing amount of television attention to the Paralympic Games as a global sports event and some persisting stereotypes in media representation of athletes with disabilities. Through an exploratory and interpretive research method, aimed at assessing media visibility of disability from the perspective of content production and its dissemination, the paper reviews the evolution of media representation of the Paralympic Games and athletes with disabilities during Sochi 2014, Rio 2016, and PyeongChang 2018 global sports events in the daily news programs from the National Spanish Broadcaster, RTVE. The effective inclusion of people with disabilities in the public sphere and a progressive removal of stereotypes and stigma depends to a great extent on the visibility and objective representation of disability in media. Full article
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