Production Challenges and Consumption: A Study of FIFA World Cup and Ultra-Music Festival

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PRODUCTION CHALLENGES
Among many FIFA world cup events in the past 2018 event presented the event
organizers with security headaches and which were related to event participants, total number of
venues, and a chance for terrorists’ to achieve global media coverage. Security was also variable
at different venues and which called for improvised techniques other than the usual bag searches
and metal detector gates used in Russian (Pshenichnaya, Petersen, Patel, Gautret and
Schlagenhauf, 2018). The organizers were also forced to involve FSB security intelligence who
took part in inspecting supporters’ credentials and tracking people of interest from the Caucasus,
especially in Chechnya. This security challenge has been attributed to the brutal suppression of
Chechen independence by Russian and which has led to an enduring security problem in the
country.
Similar to FIFA world cup 2018 security challenge, ultra-music festival 2017 posed the
same challenge to the event organizers. This was especially due to the previous event of 2014 in
Miami which had been faced with a security challenge (Lund, and Turris, 2017, p.440). During
the event of 2014, the festival was even called to an end unexpectedly by the Miami Mayor after
ticketless crowd forced their way in through the fence and trampled the security guard who was
on duty leaving her under critical conditions. So, to prevent recurrence of such an event, the
organizers were forced to hire more security guards.
CONSUMPTION
Considering these two events from the consumption point of view, the main challenge
which faced FIFA world cup 2018 was the reduced attendance compared to the previous year’s