Event Industry News

Event Organisers pull plug on Tour of Mull rally

Editor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:21 +0000

EVENT ORGANISERS have pulled the plug on the Tour of Mull rally, one of the biggest money-spinning events in the Hebrides. The car rally has given the island a huge economic boost – believed to be worth several million pounds in recent years – every October for the past four decades. The [...]

Facebook to start selling tickets to gigs and other events soon

Editor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:55:23 +0000

Facebook appears to be testing a way of selling tickets for Facebook events. A page suggesting a partnership between events site Eventbrite and Facebook was briefly spotted but has now disappeared. Could Facebook start selling tickets to gigs and other events soon? Facebook is selling tickets for its forthcoming F8 developer conference using Eventbrite but it [...]

WorldEvents firm shakeup

Editor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:44:16 +0000

Event management company WorldEvents has changed its senior management line up after opening offices in Germany, Switzerland and Hong Kong. Graham Keene moves from executive chairman to group chairman and Martin Parry steps up from UK managing director to group chief executive officer. Mr Keene maintains responsibility for the overall group vision and specifically for the group’s [...]

Tool launched for measuring impact of UK events industry

Editor — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:40:34 +0000

A new ‘toolkit’ aimed at anyone organising events in the UK has been created by a group of leading event industry experts, including UK Sport, Event Scotland, the London Development Agency, the North West Development Agency. The eventIMPACTS toolkit is a website which tells how to measure the impact of an event [...]

Northern Ireland International Airshow will go ahead

Editor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:40:37 +0000

The Northern Ireland International Airshow will go ahead this year. Councillors in Coleraine last night voted at a special meeting to go ahead with the show which had been under threat because of funding difficulties. The event has been saved following a funding intervention from the Coleraine Borough [...]

The Main Event Scotland’s biggest Event showcase gets set to dazzle at SECC

Editor — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:48:30 +0000

The Main Event 2010, Scotland’s only event dedicated to corporate events, hospitality and entertainment, is back to showcase the finest of Scotland’s events suppliers at the SECC Glasgow on Thursday 11 March from 9:30am – 5:30pm. Last year The Main Event attracted over 1,000 visitors when it opened its doors with the aim to [...]

Association of Independent Festivals Launch Initiative To “Twin’ Independent Festivals

Editor — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:40:23 +0000

The Association of Independent Festivals has launched a new initiative, AIF Twin Festivals: A Cultural Exchange, which partners the UK’s leading independent festivals with their counterparts abroad. Based on the twin towns concept, festivals will be paired with likeminded and similarly structured festivals from countries from [...]

Liverpool Convention Bureau launches new branding and strategy

Editor — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:39:36 +0000

The UK’s Liverpool Convention Bureau has rebranded and launched a new marketing strategy. “Liverpool has undergone so much change in the last few years, we needed to develop our services and branding to match,” said Carol O’Reilly, Liverpool Convention Bureau manager. “We are in a fantastic position to open up the city and its [...]

Glastonbury Festival 2010 to use solar electricity system

Editor — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:49:25 +0000

Worthy Farm in Somerset, home to the annual music festival Glastonbury, is set to house 1,500 square meters of solar panels for this year’s event, in what would be the UK’s largest private solar electricity system. Festival organiser Michael Eavis hopes to place 1,100 solar panels on cow sheds during Glastonbury 2010. [...]

The Event Safety Guide (HSG195) to be updated

Editor — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:31:33 +0000

The HSE has announced it is to revise its guidance for the events industry to reflect legislative changes and improvements in industry practices. The Executive intends to collaborate with the industry itself and other key stakeholders to produce new material for The Event Safety Guide (HSG195), to give greater emphasis to risk assessment [...]