To paraphrase Ferris Bueller: Life moves pretty fast—if you don’t keep up, you could miss out. The venue management industry isn’t immune to the fast-pace of the world around it, which makes a new textbook that much more important. Public Assembly Venue Management: Sports,

Guests often have to wait in lines to enter venues, and sometimes it feels like it takes forever to get in and other times it doesn’t faze a guest at all. Why is that? Well, a study in the Journal of Consumer Research looked at the factors that determine how people experience ti

Some of you, like me, may have never heard of Jorkyball. Well, get ready, because I’m about to tell you about it. It was invented in Europe in the late 1980s. It’s a two-person-to-a-side football (soccer) game played in a 10-meter x 5-meter court surrounded by 3-meter high

IAVM is pleased to announce a 2015-2016 global partnership with Sherpa Solutions. This is the highest partner level available at the association and reflects a tremendous commitment to the community of venues and professionals it serves. Through the new partnership, attendees to all o

VenueDataSource is happy to share with you the latest “Business Barometer,” in which positive trends are evident. For example, looking at the average ratings during the course of the full 2014 year, most managers indicated that current business conditions are better than t