School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Business Events Management
  • Unit Code

    TSM3500
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Joanna Maree PEARCE

Description

The emphasis of this unit is to provide students with a detailed and practical understanding of the business events sector (sometimes referred to as the 'MICE industry'). The unit will look at the sector from multiple perspectives including the origins of demand and the sources of supply, the opportunities for generating income and the activities that create expenses. The key role of the media and marketing communications will be examined in detail. The unit will be largely presented from the viewpoint of a business event manager. A categorisation of business events into meetings (including gatherings, conferences and conventions), exhibitions (including trade shows, public shows and Expositions) and incentives (encompassing incentive travel and corporate hospitality events) will be adopted. The unit will incorporate an examination of how these multiple issues are balanced in the creation and delivery of business events and how the success of this process may be evaluated.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TSM5500

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appreciate the scale of the business events sector and recognise the categories and classes of events that comprise it and their respective purposes.
  2. Describe methods by which the success of business events may be measured and reported upon.
  3. Explain the elements of the demand-side and supply-side drivers of the business events sector.
  4. Explain the importance of the media and marketing communications to the production of business events.
  5. Identify the potential sources of income and expense for business events and explain how these can be managed to influence successful outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Supply-side: Resources and types of suppliers.
  2. Pre-event: Design and conceptualisation
  3. Post-event: Evaluation and reporting.
  4. Expense-side C: Administration and risk management.
  5. Revenue-side A: Revenue-generating processes.
  6. Revenue-side B: Revenue-generating products.
  7. Structure: Categories and classes of business events.
  8. Introduction: About business events.
  9. Demand-side: Categories and classes of participants.
  10. Expense-side B: Marketing management.
  11. The I in MICE: Incentive travel and corporate hospitality events.
  12. End-point: Unit summary and exam review.
  13. Expense-side A: Operations management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus mode of delivery for this unit is through weekly on-campus seminars; the off-campus mode of delivery requires regular online access via Blackboard to a weekly schedule of activities, which includes accompanying audio of lecture slides. The teaching and learning approach in this unit is enhanced through in-class and online discussions on practical industry examples and case studies, where the skills of working effectively with others (specifically team working, task collaboration and working productively with people from diverse cultures), communicating effectively, critical appraisal and the ability to generate ideas are emphasised. Students are required to complete assessment items which are assessed for quality academic and professional standards, including written communication (structure, language and conventions), critical analysis (depth of thought, development of argument, logical analysis and insight), depth and breadth of coverage, the ability to research effectively using both academic and contemporary sources and industry relevance.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectBusiness Events Analysis Document30%
ReportBusiness Events Report30%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectBusiness Events Analysis Document30%
ReportBusiness Events Report30%
ExaminationExamination40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Rogers, T. (2008). Conferences and conventions-A global industry (2nd ed., pp. xix, 400 ). Amsterdam: Buterworth heinemann.
  • Davidson, R., & Rogers, T. (2015). Marketing destinations and venues for conferences, conventions and business events (pp. xvi, 295 ). London : Taylor & Francis.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Business Events Management
  • Unit Code

    TSM3500
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Joanna Maree PEARCE

Description

The emphasis of this unit is to provide students with a detailed and practical understanding of the business events sector (sometimes referred to as the 'MICE industry'). The unit will look at the sector from multiple perspectives including the origins of demand and the sources of supply, the opportunities for generating income and the activities that create expenses. The key role of the media and marketing communications will be examined in detail. The unit will be largely presented from the viewpoint of a business event manager. A categorisation of business events into meetings (including gatherings, conferences and conventions), exhibitions (including trade shows, public shows and Expositions) and incentives (encompassing incentive travel and corporate hospitality events) will be adopted. The unit will incorporate an examination of how these multiple issues are balanced in the creation and delivery of business events and how the success of this process may be evaluated.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TSM5500

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appreciate the scale of the business events sector and recognise the categories and classes of events that comprise it and their respective purposes.
  2. Describe methods by which the success of business events may be measured and reported upon.
  3. Explain the elements of the demand-side and supply-side drivers of the business events sector.
  4. Explain the importance of the media and marketing communications to the production of business events.
  5. Identify the potential sources of income and expense for business events and explain how these can be managed to influence successful outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Supply-side: Resources and types of suppliers.
  2. Pre-event: Design and conceptualisation
  3. Post-event: Evaluation and reporting.
  4. Expense-side C: Administration and risk management.
  5. Revenue-side A: Revenue-generating processes.
  6. Revenue-side B: Revenue-generating products.
  7. Structure: Categories and classes of business events.
  8. Introduction: About business events.
  9. Demand-side: Categories and classes of participants.
  10. Expense-side B: Marketing management.
  11. The I in MICE: Incentive travel and corporate hospitality events.
  12. End-point: Unit summary and exam review.
  13. Expense-side A: Operations management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

The on-campus mode of delivery for this unit is through weekly on-campus seminars; the off-campus mode of delivery requires regular online access via Blackboard to a weekly schedule of activities, which includes accompanying audio of lecture slides. The teaching and learning approach in this unit is enhanced through in-class and online discussions on practical industry examples and case studies, where the skills of working effectively with others (specifically team working, task collaboration and working productively with people from diverse cultures), communicating effectively, critical appraisal and the ability to generate ideas are emphasised. Students are required to complete assessment items which are assessed for quality academic and professional standards, including written communication (structure, language and conventions), critical analysis (depth of thought, development of argument, logical analysis and insight), depth and breadth of coverage, the ability to research effectively using both academic and contemporary sources and industry relevance.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectBusiness Events Analysis Document30%
ReportBusiness Events Report30%
ExaminationExamination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectBusiness Events Analysis Document30%
ReportBusiness Events Report30%
ExaminationExamination40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Rogers, T. (2008). Conferences and conventions-A global industry (2nd ed., pp. xix, 400 ). Amsterdam: Buterworth heinemann.
  • Davidson, R., & Rogers, T. (2015). Marketing destinations and venues for conferences, conventions and business events (pp. xvi, 295 ). London : Taylor & Francis.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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