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Managing Sport Facilities and Major Events
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Product Description
The eminently practical guide to hosting small and large-scale sports facilities and offers a systematic guide to the essential management responsibilities from start to finish, alongside advice on associated issues such as environmental and community concerns.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #385400 in Books
- Published on: 2006-07-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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From the Back Cover
From corporate boxes to sprinklers, food outlets to toilets, and first aid to media management... the facility and event managers are accountable for the success of sporting ventures and events.
Managing Sport Facilities and Major Events explains how to get the job done. With detailed international case studies in each chapter, the book offers a systematic guide to the management issues and practical problems that sports managers must address to ensure financial, sporting and ethical success.
Chapters cover feasibility assessment, market research, bidding for an event, branding, risk analysis, contract and project management, corporate structure, quality assurance, budgeting, facility management, staffing, occupational health and safety, and contractual considerations—as well as economic, social, community and environmental issues.
Written by an international team of expert scholars, Managing Sport Facilities and Major Events is an invaluable student text and professional reference.
About the Author
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia University of Texas at Austin, USA
