The Full Value of Business Events: Incorporating BTB Outcomes

Project Member(s): Edwards, D., Foley, C.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Business Events Sydney Limited (Business Events Sydney LTD)

Start year: 2014

Summary: This proposal is for an extension of the Delegate Expenditure and Beyond Tourism Benefits (BTB) studies. The purpose of the study is to continue to reinforce the Expenditure Forecasting Tool (EFT) whilst capturing the full value of business events. This extension project is to include delegate/organiser expenditure as well as key BTB questions.

Publications:

Mair, J, Foley, C & Edwards, D 2024, 'Events and Economic Sustainability: A Critical Commentary', Event Management, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1225-1234.
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Foley, C, Edwards, D & Weber, K 2021, Business Event Legacies Global Industry Case Studies.

Foley, C, Edwards, D & Weber, K 2021, 'Chapter 2 Conferences as Catalysts for Thriving Economies' in Business Event Legacies, Goodfellow, Oxford.

Edwards, D, Foley, C & Malone, C 2017, The Power of Conferences: Stories of serendipity, innovation and driving social change, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney.
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Edwards, D, Cheng, M, Wong, IA, Zhang, J & Wu, Q 2017, 'Ambassadors of knowledge sharing', International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 690-708.
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Edwards, D, Foley, CT & Hergesell, A 2016, Conferences: catalysts for thriving economies, Sydney.

Keywords: Business events, expenditure, forecasting

FOR Codes: Impacts of Tourism, Management, Impacts of tourism

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.