Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks (Book)

The growing global sport industry requires that the sport management curriculum keep abreast of new and proven management techniques. Sport Facility Management: Organizing Events and Mitigating Risks provides readers with a comprehensive up-to-date introduction to each element of facility management for the full range of sporting events. The demand for individuals who are educated and trained in facility management event organization and risk management has grown significantly in the past decade. The authors have meticulously provided photographs case studies chapter summaries questions and industry examples to supplement each chapter and to assist the student in gaining an overall picture of the sporting event industry today. The book provides in-depth discussions about positive advances (e.g. ticket purchases concessions stadium design) that have made the entire experience easier and more comfortable for fans; and about the negative economic and cultural consequences for sport events after September 11, 2001. Author/Editor: Robin Ammon Jr., Richard M. Southall, David A. Blair Copyright: 2004 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 256 pp. Chapters include: Planning and Producing Events Financing Facilities Privatization ADA Requirements Hiring Personnel Formulating and Using Contracts Risk Management Facility Negligence Waivers and Releases Crowd Management Medical Emergency and Evacuation Plans Alcohol Management Concession Management Box Office Management Richard M. Southall, EdD, received a BA (Summa cum Laude) in English from Western State College of Colorado in 1980. After teaching and coaching in high school for eight years, he worked in the scuba diving industry for twelve years. A Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) Course Director, Dr. Southall has worked in the United States, the Caribbean, and Central America in retail management, dive charter operations, diving research, and scuba training in both private and collegiate settings. In 1997 he received an MA in Pedagogy -- Physical Education at the University of Northern Colorado and completed his doctorate at Northern Colorado (2001). Presently employed at the State University of West Georgia, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in sport facility and event management, sport law, social and economic influences in sport, sport ethics, sport promotion and marketing, and organizational theory. Dr. Southall's areas of research include risk management in sport and recreational s