Analyzing Brexit's Impact on Event Recruitment plus European Airports

This assignment provides an analysis of the event and entertainment industry, focusing on two key areas. First, it presents a graphical illustration of European airports ranked by passenger handling capacity in 2016, discussing the dominance of London/Heathrow and the factors contributing to its high traffic. Second, it includes a report on the potential impact of Brexit on recruitment within the UK events industry, highlighting the reliance on migrant workers, the skills gap created by their departure, and the opportunities and challenges for developing homegrown talent. The assignment also includes reflections on delivering a presentation and the importance of communication skills for students and professionals in the field.

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Event and Entertainment
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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TASK – 2
The following data is a graphical illustration of all the European’s airports arranged in
descending order according to their passenger handling capacity in millions in the year 2016.
The following data is derived from the online webpage named Infographic: Europe’s Busiest
Airports written by M. Armstrong in the year 2017. The graphical data is representing the
maximum number of passengers in millions that is handled by all the airports of Europe in the
year 2016 (Battal and Bakir 2017).
The data that is shown in the graph provided represents all the passengers that have
accessed these particular airports. Millions of passengers have accessed flights at these airports
for travelling both domestic and international destinations. The data is arranged in a descending
manner, from highest to lowest. The first position in the graph is taken up by London/Heathrow
airport, handling a total of 75.7 million passengers and the lowest being 2407 million passengers
handled by Stockholm/Arlanda airport (Jackson 2017).
The airport in Heathrow has handled the maximum number of passengers. The reason
behind London being the busiest airport in the whole of Europe is that it is linked with all the
major airports in the world. Most of the long journey airport in the world halts at the airport.
However, the London/Gatwick airport though being is London does not handle that much of
passenger due to the lack of services (Redondi and Gudmundsson 2016).
Both the areas are in London but are placed in different places in the chart due to the
basic differences in the services provided by both the airports.
The data is representing the busiest airport in Europe as the total number of passengers
they have handled in the year 2016 in graphical form.

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From the data, other airports could monitor their position in terms of passenger handling
and analyse why they are lagging back from others.
TASK – 3
A report on Recruitment in the events industry
Introduction
This following report is constructed to analyse the possible and potential impact on the
exit of Britain from the European Union recruitment events program. Brexit has placed an
abbreviation for the exit of British that is related to the referendum that was held on 23rd June of
2016 (Kashef 2015). The citizen of the country has voted to be out of the European Union of
recruitment. Many companies that have been dedicated to the recruitment profession for working
at different sectors in the industry of event. These companies are bound to follow and impacted
by the referendum result. The recruitment in the industry related to events are usually focused on
the factor that they are hiring candidates that should be working for various clients.
Discussion
An important problem that has to be a focus on is that although with regards to the
referendum’s results, there is a skilled individual that could work in the event industry of United
Kingdom. This issue has been a vital point that is needed to be analysed because the event
industry of the United Kingdom have been heavily reliant on the fact that migrant workers at
London where the percentage is above 60 of the reliant level (Davari et al. 2016). From the
analysis of the statistical point of view, third of the migrant workers that have been working in

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the event industry at the United Kingdom’s do possess the skills that necessary for the role and
also they occupy the skilled and the role of managerial responsibilities.
Brexit has further provided an opportunity to the recruiters for training and recruiting as many as
a possible professional that have been identified with Britain’s latest issue. Thus, this has led in
fostering the solution that is based on the knowledge of the country. Thus, the United Kingdom’s
exit from the European Union would have probably raised the migration-related issue of then
skilled individual back to their country (Getz and Page 2016). This has been resulting in crushing
the list of skilled workers. Thus, the recruitment process has been suffering due to the
availability of less skilled workers to hire of the event industry of United Kingdom.
Although, this situation has been able to create an opportunity for Britain to invest their
capital on the education system and the training sessions for all the local people so that they
could fill the gap that has been created by the migration of the skilled workers back at their
countries (Barron and Ali-Knight 2017). United Kingdom’s through belief on the workers that
have been migrated back to their home country have would be ceasing, and it would be able to
tap from the professionals to be homegrown (Fletcher and Hylton 2018).
Despite the many opportunities that have been given for growing as a homegrown talent,
the recruitment would still suffer as it would not be possible for the recruiters to find the
necessary professionals from the great diverse cultural backgrounds that would help in enhancing
United Kingdom’s appeal at the event industry.
Although, there have been recruitments that have been successful at hiring the right
number of people with the exactly right sets of skills that are needed from the diverse cultural
background in the country. The employee-diversity value in the field is not to be underestimated

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due to the past events as it has been seen that the industry has welcomed visitors even though
there has been diversity at the background of the culture (Sinclair et al. 2017).
The requirements for the recruitment have been compound for recruiting the necessary
amount of professional for the industry as it would be extremely professional. Thus, the
European Union claimed the necessity of workers that would obtain visas before they are
recruited at the event industry of the United Kingdom.
Conclusion
Thus, the report could be concluded by providing a brief overview of the reasons for
Britain’s exit from the European Union for recruitment at the event industry. As a result of the
referendum have been the cause for the shortage of skills, the recruitment field has been seeing
the decline in the recruitment of skilled professional for the industry of event in the United
Kingdom. Therefore, due to the far-spread diversity in the background of culture in the United
Kingdom, there has been a shortage of workers, and the board have suffered loss.
TASK – 4
A power point presentation is done for task 3.
TASK – 5
Question 1. What did you learn from delivering a presentation?
Answer – From delivering a presentation, I learnt many things that were not known to me. A
presentation is needed to be presented by the student or the presenter in front of their audience
that would help them in engaging directly with the audience. For completion of the unit that was
given by our professor, we had to create a presentation of an academic skill chosen by our own

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and provide a presentation on it. We have to deliver the presentation in front of everyone in the
classroom.
While delivering the presentation, I was nervous before. I found it difficult to engage
with so many people for the first time. I was feeling nervous and tensed at that time. My chosen
section of academic skill was communication skill.
I realise the areas that I needed to work on to improve my communication skills, and I
realised the confidence I had was nothing but false appreciation.
From the situation, I realised that I needed to work on my communication skills and need
to interact with many people to omit my stage fear.
While delivering the presentation, if only I knew my weak point, then it would have been
easy for me to deliver the presentation.
Question 2. How does the skill your presentation focus on relating to students and
professionals of your subject area? What can you learn from it? How can they develop it?
How is it useful?
Answer – The skill that I have chosen for the presentation is communication skills. It helps in
sharing knowledge between the students and teachers of my course. From communication skills,
people can learn that it is important for engaging with people and understand others perspective.
As I have learnt, people can learn too that it is important for maintaining verbal communication
among each other for exchanging knowledge and increase interpersonal skills.
The development of communication skills could be done by listening carefully to the
speakers they are delivering the knowledge or sharing any information from their side. Writing

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done notes would also help in creating the necessary changes needed for enhancing the
communication skills. Briefing the subject would also help but is to be kept in mind that they
need to be specific also.
Communication skills are very important for engaging with the people around you. It
helps in solving the misunderstanding and the doubts that are developed among the teachers and
the students.

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