MKTG340-26S1 (C) Semester One 2026

Event Management and Marketing

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 February 2026
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2026
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 1 March 2026
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 10 May 2026

Description

This course introduces students to the importance of marketing and managing events in the successful development of tourist destinations. It highlights the various forces (macro and micro level, especially from a stakeholder perspective) that impact on events and provides students with an insight into the events planning, marketing, and management process. This course also addresses the financial and human resources aspects of events, and provides students with generic event marketing and management skills that can be applied to festivals, meetings and conventions, expositions and shows, and to sport competitions.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2026

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 10:00 - 12:00 Ernest Rutherford 225
16 Feb - 29 Mar
20 Apr - 31 May

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Reflective Assignment - weekly 10%
Reflective Assignment - Essay 20%
Event Organizing 30%
Final Examination 40% Final Examination

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Beech, John G; The business of events management ; Pearson Education, 2014.

Recommended Reading

Els, G., Reed, I., Mawer, V., & Pielichaty, H; Events project management ; Taylor & Francis, 2016.

Fenich, G. G; Planning and management of meetings, expositions, events and conventions ; Pearson Higher Education, 2015.

Hall, C. M; Hallmark tourist events: Impacts, management and planning ; Belhaven Press, 1992.

Hudson, Simon; Marketing for tourism, hospitality & events : a global & digital approach ; Sage Publications Limited, 2017.

Page, Stephen , Connell, Joanne; The Routledge handbook of events ; Second edition; Routledge, 2020.

Shank, Matthew D. , Lyberger, Mark R; Sports marketing : a strategic perspective ; Fifth edition; Routledge, 2015.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,003.00

International fee $4,538.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Management, Marketing and Tourism .

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