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This book theoretically and empirically explores the relations between events and attractions to offer new thinking on the role of space and place in shaping development, management practices and strategies in the sector as well as future implications.

This book seeks to provide a clear snapshot of the current state of play in the risk management landscape, as well as a look ahead to the key emerging issues in the field. From GRC to supply chain risk, operational risk to cyber risk, this edited collection showcases best practice in each discipline.

This book explains the trends behind the staging of more events by cities and public spaces. Events play a positive role in our cities, but turning public spaces into venues is often controversial. Events can denigrate as well as animate city space, they are part of the commercialisation, privatisation and securitisation of public space. This book focuses on London in particular, but also covers other cities from the developed world.

Each of the ten chapters of this book addresses,through technology, the key competencies (standards) of the Meeting Professionals International's Event Management International Competency Standards (EMICS). Each technology platform directly supports one of the standards identified through EMICS to ensure a correct fit with current and future industry expectations.

This book challenges the reader to reach beyond the established modes of thinking about events by placing them against a backdrop of much wider, critical discourse. It comprises the works of scholars of diverse backgrounds to address a range of philosophical, theoretical and methods-related problems. The areas covered include the concepts of eventification and eventual approaches to events; a mobilities paradigm; rhizomatic events; critical discourse analysis; visual methods; reflexive and ethnographic research into events; and indigenous acumen.