Analysis of Economic, Environmental, and Social Music Festival Effects

This report provides a detailed analysis of the multifaceted impacts of music festivals. It begins with an executive summary and introduction defining music festivals and their historical significance. The core of the report is divided into three main sections: economic, environmental, and social impacts. The economic impact section covers employment opportunities, revenue generation, tax collection, and the overall boosting of the economy. The environmental impact section focuses on carbon footprint omission, waste generation, and the impact of construction work. The social impact section discusses the effects on local residents, cultural exchange, fundraising opportunities, crime issues, and traffic problems. The report concludes with a summary of findings and recommendations for event organizers to mitigate negative impacts and maximize positive outcomes. The report emphasizes the importance of careful planning and adherence to government regulations to ensure sustainable and socially responsible music festivals. The report has been contributed by a student and is available on Desklib.

Academic and
Professional Skills

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The report includes the about the academic and professional skills and about the music
festival, that organising a music festival in a city leads to some positive as well as some negative
impacts towards the environment, society and economy. The host city enjoys the benefits of
generating a lot of revenue for the country, but by creating a lot of production it makes their own
city get polluted. Also the chances of theft and other illegal act ivies increases at this tenure. So,
the city have to make expenditure on the safety of the citizens. But keeping all this negative
points aside a lot of contribution in revenue generation and tax collection are done by the host
city where music festival is organised.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
ANALYSIS......................................................................................................................................5
Economic impact ........................................................................................................................5
Environmental impact ................................................................................................................6
Social impact ..............................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals...................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
The capability and strategy used by the learners for being successful in academics are
termed as academic skills and the combination of hard as well as the soft skills are termed as
professional skills. A event where various singers or musician comes for a live performance,
usually lasting for many days, with a defined music theme is considered as a Music Festival. A
large number of audiences comes over the event place to attend the music festival (Anderton,
2018). The craze for music festival is not new, since 18th century, this kind of events are very
popular. Million dollars revenue is generated every single day on such music festivals, which is
contributing in various national economies. For example – the music festival organised in 2017
at Coachella Valley generated a profit of one hundred fourteen million dollars. The word festival
was firstly used in England. Their is a whole big team which is involved in organising any event,
an individual person can't make this such efforts that an music event can be organised. The
people involved in organising a music event or music festival are termed as 'stakeholders'.
Basically, the stakeholders are divided into two major categories, one is 'primary stakeholders'
they are the one on which the whole event is dependent. Like staff or employees, sponsors of the
event, supplier of the products, volunteers, the audience or viewer and most important the
performer (Borges, Cunha and Lopes, 2021). The other category is of 'secondary stakeholders',
they includes the community who organises the event, government whose permission is very
crucial in order to organise any event, the service provider of all the essential things, reporters
from media to cover to event and other important businesses. The aim of preparing of this report
is to cover all the important and crucial points related with music festival. Details of various
stakeholders involved in organising the event. Later it includes the analysis on various factors or
impact of organising event in a city. The impact included economical impact, environmental
impact and the social impact occurred because of organising events.
ANALYSIS
Whenever any event or festival is organised it affects in several ways, either it can be
positive or it could be negative. To get a clear understanding on the impact of organising music
festival the analysis is divided into three major parts economic, environmental and social impact.

Economic impact
All the factors which directly or indirectly contributing to boost the economic condition
of the county are considered under economic impact.
 Employment opportunity – Whenever any event or festival takes place, a number of
employment opportunities are being created (Horster, 2020). Number of arrangements
has to be made in order to organise the festival. Larger the event, will results in larger job
creation opportunities. When a music festival takes place the arrangements related to
event such as for food, place, music band and lot and lot of things are required, which is
not possible for a single person to handle it, so different things are being arranged from
different suppliers. Small as well as large vendors, suppliers and other participants are
involved in the event organisation, which is providing them a lot and lot of employment
opportunities (Community festivals—Big benefits, but risks, too, 2022).
 Revenue generation – A single day event generates a million of dollars, which helps in
rising the economy condition of the country (Pulh, 2022). A lot of audience comes to
view the event. Tickets of the events sold out very quickly. The stock out of tickets also
depends on performer. A famous performers tickets always stocks out quickly and
generates a lot of revenue, where as a normal performer can't generates a much of
revenue. More the revenue generation means more profit, which will directly or indirectly
benefit the small vendors, as they will get the fair pay, for the efforts made by them.
 Tax collection – Collection of tax is the most important source for the government of
revenue generation. A good sum of tax collection will directly of indirectly benefit the
people. The increased tax collection will provide the government with higher budget for
the expenditure and government will make use of that amount in infrastructure or any
other activities.
 Boosting economy – The most important thing which occurred in the economy by the
revenue generation is a rapid increase in the economic condition of the country.
Whenever any activity related to employment, revenue generation, inflation or deflation
takes place will helps in boosting the economy condition of the country. The viewers or
the visitors comes to attend the music event also plays a vital role towards contribution in
the economy. When they visits the music festival organised city, they visits other places
too and make expenses to visit those places which directly contributes in the economy.

Also visitors stays in the hostel, their they make payment and contributes in the economy.
The visitors also acts as the free advertising options, as they post about the events or the
places they visits on their social media handles, which is motivating or influencing other
people to visit the city and attend the next music festival. So boosting tourisms means
boosting the economic condition of the country.
Environmental impact
The factors which are affecting the environmental conditions of the economy are
considered under environmental condition.
 Omission of carbon footprint – For organising any events or festivals requires a lot of
resources, time and efforts (Ruddy, 2021). Sometimes unnecessary uses of resources
takes place. A electricity taking quick connections at a vacant place where events are
organised are not possible so generators or something are being installed, which results in
omission of carbon footprints at peak (ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, 2022). The air gets
polluted and takes a lot of time to get back at it's normal condition.
 Waste generation - A lot of crowd collects at the venue place to attend the music event
and consumes a lot of goods and through the plastic and other kinds of waste here and
their which results in polluting the environment (Luoma, 2018). Apart from this the
unnecessary resources used while organising music festival results in generating wastes.
As per some reports the plastic waste that generates at the music festival time, is five
times more then the normal days.
 Construction work impact – Construction work involved while organising the music
event has both negative and positive impact. It provides a lot of employment
opportunities and the vacant place is transformed into the constructive and neat and clear
place this is the positive impact, but the negative point is that the construction site
requires a lot of resources and a huge amount of cost is acquired in its construction and
the place is being destroyed after the event is over. A huge amount of waste is generated
throughout this process. Other negative point is that when a huge event takes place, the
music events use to organise at any empty areas, for this large number of trees are being
cut to covert that vacant space full of trees into a auditorium, where music event is
organised.

Social impact
Social impact refers to positive or negative impact on society. Music festival creates
social impact in both the positive and negative manner. There is following social impact of
musical festival as -
 Impact on local residents - Music festival creates lot of job opportunities for daily wage
labourer. Daily worker can earn money by working in various activities requires for
music festival such as decoration, sound system etc
 (Luonila, Kurlin and Karttunen, 2021). There is opportunities for residents that they can
promote their businesses. It is due to that there is large gathering of people in music
festival. Sometimes it also affect the local resident negatively where music festival
creates lot of noise pollution which can affect the students and older people.
 Cultural impact - In music festival there is large number of people gathering from
various cultural background. People from various society gather together there is one
thing that makes them to gather is music despite being various language and cultural
background but it connects the people sense of music. There are many people around the
world listen English song whether they know the language or not, they like the music.
Such music festival helps them to overcome from stress in this competitive environment.
 Raising capital - Music festival becomes a greater source of income where money can be
raised for social cause such as hospital, medicines, funds for NGOs etc (Dinis, Eusébio
and Breda, 2020). There is large gathering in the music festival therefore fund can be
raised from ticket price. It can also be raised from various sponsors partnered with music
festival organisers. This raised fund is then used for survival of flood, person with
disability and social development.
 Crime issues - There is also a negative impact of music festival on society. There are
many people drink, smoke and do other activities which makes the other people
uncomfortable. Sometimes, it becomes violent during the music show. It requires tight
security during the show. It is negatively impacting the youth in which they are addicted
to drugs and other things as well. It is impacting the society negatively.
 Traffic issues & accidents - As we know that there are large number of people come to
attend the music festival which creates chaos. There are many people come with their
personal vehicles which creates traffic jam in the city and it leads to accidents. Public is

affected negatively due such issues created by music festival. There should be proper
facility of parking. There is also proper facility of medical services maintained.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report it is concluded that the definition of music festival and how it
is helping in boosting the economy of the country. It includes the various impact of music
festival on economic in which how music festival generating the employment. It also consists
environmental and social impact of music festival. There is many different ways in which music
festival impacting the environment as creating noise pollution. There is positive impact of
musical festival on society where it is helpful for daily wage labourer and to raise fund for social
work. It also creates negative impact on society as crime issues and also responsible for traffic
jam in the city which affects the general public due to large gathering. There is always positive
and negative aspects of the things. Therefore, music festival needs to take care of environment
and social factor. They should follow the government rules and regulations.
RECOMMENDATION
While organising any event or music festival the most important factor which the
organiser focuses in the money. So for this a proper plan should be made that where and how
much amount should be used. Pre analysis of every expenditure should be made. The other
important point is related to the place where the event is organised. A place where the viewers
can visit easily and proper transportation facility is available to reach at that destination, then the
possibility for the views to attend the event increases, where as when the audience finds
difficulty in attending the event they are not going to attend the event. So, destination for the
event should be keep in mind while organising the event. The organisers should also take care of
the factors which are affecting the environment, society and economy whether directly or
indirectly. As in a long run by continuously affecting the environment, results in taking strict
action against the organiser as they are polluting the environment. When the government takes
action this would make the image of the organiser and music festival goes down, so its better that
the organiser timely takes the action. This will save the environment as well as the image of the
music festival, otherwise it takes a lot of time in gaining the same image that the organiser have
earlier.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Anderton, C., 2018. Music Festivals in the UK: Beyond the Carnivalesque. Routledge.
Borges, A.P., Cunha, C. and Lopes, J., 2021. The main factors that determine the intention to
revisit a music festival. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and
Events, 13(3), pp.314-335.
Dinis, M.G., Eusébio, C. and Breda, Z., 2020. Assessing social media accessibility: the case of
the Rock in Rio Lisboa music festival. International Journal of Event and Festival
Management.
Horster, M., 2020. Hellenistic Festivals: Aspects of the Economic Impact on Cities and
Sanctuaries. In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean (pp. 116-139).
Brill.
Luoma, S., 2018. The environmental impacts of the biggest music festivals in Europe.
Luonila, M., Kurlin, A. and Karttunen, S., 2021. Capturing societal impact: the case of state-
funded festivals in Finland. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and
Events, 13(3), pp.397-418.
Pulh, M., 2022. Differentiation Through the Over-Experientialization of Cultural Offers: The
Case of Contemporary Music Festivals. International Journal of Arts
Management, 24(2).
Ruddy, L., 2021. A quantitative Study into festival goer’s awareness, attitudes, and behaviour in
relation to the environmental impacts of UK music festivals. Public Health Institute
Journal, pp.25-25.
Online
Community festivals—Big benefits, but risks, too, 2022 [online] Available Through
<https://extension.umn.edu/vital-connections/community-festivals-big-benefits-risks-too>
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, 2022 [online] Available Through
<https://www.eventhosts.org/resources/event-impact-standards/environmental-impacts-2/>