1. imagine that you are an event planner who focuses on planning conventions and events for various businesses and industry professionals. Your current task is to plan an event for sales professionals from various industries traveling from all over the globe. What are the elements of a convention that you will need to plan? Conventions overlap with other segments within the hospitality and tourism industry—what other arrangements might you need to make when planning the convention? How could you meet the specialized needs of sales professionals with the convention you are planning?
2. Janelle owns a business within the hospitality and tourism industry and recently let an employee go because the employee's lack of productivity was beginning to negatively impact the company's profit margin. Provide a description of what this employee's lack of productivity may have looked like and analyze potential ways that it could have impacted the profit margin. Feel free to fabricate or create a hypothetical situation.
3. Imagine that you are planning a local arts festival on a low budget. How would you determine who to market the event to? How would you market this event? What are the advantages and disadvantages to your marketing choices? How does operating in a free enterprise system impact your marketing decisions? Explain.
4. Imagine that you are the event manager for a music concert. What are some of the possible risks that guests might face at the event? What would you do to reduce these risks? Identify the safety and security practices that event planners and managers need to consider when planning an event specific to the music concert and in general.
5. Events may use paid staff or volunteers. Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of having paid staff for an event versus volunteer staff.