The Growth of Event Venues: Challenges for Events and Facility Management in Nigeria
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Date
2012
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The Redemeer's University Journal of Theatre and Cultural Studies
Abstract
The desire to celebrate functions in covered elite spaces became a
vogue in the early '90s while the ability to pay for such venues
became a status symbol. Event venues sprang up in all areas of Lagos
state as they became major revenue earners. People with landed
properties took to building event centres while old properties were
converted to accommodate event halls. The demand for these
venues in their different capacities in choice locations determined
their status and categories. Old club houses renovated to meet the
new taste of their members while generating extra revenues for the
clubs. The desire to take advantage of this relatively 'easy money'
led to a supplier's market economically and the market is still
growing. The result is the emergence of "Event Managers" covering
a broad range of event needs. This paper traces the fast growth of
event venues since 1990 to date, the qualities of premier elite venues
which led to the current event venue explosion, and the challenges
for events and facility managers in Nigeria. The paper is a
modification of an internal assessment study as a management staff
of the MUSON Centrel (1994-2002) in the face of growing
competition.
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Event, Venue, Facility management