Critical Analysis of Sydney’s New Year Celebration

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Title: Event Management
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Event Management 1
Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Critical Analysis of Sydney’s New Year Celebration................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

Event Management 2
Introduction
For a successful event, every organization has to conduct different process and
activities, to ensure the success of the event. For event management, the most important thing
that has to be kept in mind is event planning. This event planning is the core base, which
determines the success of the event. There are also several internal and external contextual
factors which have to regularly examine. While some of these factors can be controlled, but
the external factors do not possess the same attribute. These external factors include political,
social, economic, technological, legal, and environmental. In this assignment, these external
factors will be identified and analyzed in the huge event conducted for the New Year’s
celebration in Sydney, Australia.
Critical Analysis of Sydney’s New Year Celebration
In Australia, the New Year’s Eve celebration is conducted on a large scale. With
millions of people coming together to witness the magical event of fireworks, music, and
animation, there is a huge responsibility that is imposed on the organizers of the event. This
time the state government has gone overboard in making the event extravagant for the people
(Deutrom, 2018). In comparison to the former New Year’s celebration, this year the scale at
which all the preparation were planned is massive. With 1.5 million people waiting eagerly to
become a part of this massive celebration, the city was struck by a strong thunderstorm,
affecting the events major shows and also ruined the enthusiasm of the people. Though the
event happened as the weather improved, still the event was affected by a few external
contextual factors, which include economic and technological factors (Balasubramanian et
al., 2017).
This year the New Year Eve show has garnered huge criticism due to the enormous
amount of financial resource which has been invested in organizing the event. The show