We venue managers share many similar issues, concerns, and goals regardless of our type of venue. The safety of our participants, ticket holders, partners, employees, and everyone else involved with our operations, as well as the security of our venue itself, are topics that concern u

Pop quiz: What does VenueDataSource (VDS) provide IAVM members? Answer: Resources, membership value, empowerment, and information. IAVM represents more than 2,000 venues around the world. We are stronger together, and the key to moving our facilities forward is information and communi

Research is linking increased risk of heart attack, high blood pressure, sleep problems, and anxiety to chronic stress caused by daily interactions with a “bad boss.” “The evidence is clear that the leadership qualities of ‘bad’ bosses over time exert a heavy toll on emplo

IAVM, and specifically VenueDataSource, received some love from architecture firm HKS earlier this month. “Several years ago, we learned that IAVM initiated a project called VenueDataSource, which gathers data on operational costs and revenue in IAVM member convention centers, s

If you want to feel happier, then you might want to see at least two theatre plays per year. That’s just one of the findings in a new study out of Britain titled “Quantifying and Valuing the Wellbeing Impacts of Culture and Sport.” According the study, people who att