Global environmental issues as a motive for a sustainability-oriented event industry
Stefani, Vasileva (2022)
2022
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The objective of the thesis was to discover the event industry and its global environmental impacts. In particular, the aim and main objective of this thesis was to find out what music festivals could do to make their operations more environmentally sustainable. The thesis aims at enhancing environmental consciousness in the music festival industry and give examples of festivals which have gone green.
The theoritical framework was based on collecting academic sources, closely related to event management, global environmental issues, and sustainability. In addition, secondary sources, such as the official webpages of the several sustainable music festivals, were taken in consideration, too.
The thesis research methodology was qualitative. Furthermore, the research method aimed at analyzing the approaches the four big music festivals have made, in order to be sustainable and successful at the same time.
The findings indicated that different environmentally sustainable solutions are made by the four researched festivals. Moreover, they all have found out ways for reducing the energy- and water consumption, as well as, the waste. For instance, using mostly reusable energy, LED lights, providing free water taps, encouraging their visitors to use reusable bottles to refill, prohibiting all plastics cups and utensils, providing compost toilets, etc.
In sum, each of the four study cases has its own impact on raising the public environmental awareness. These few European festivals do it by providing the mentioned solutions, constantly developing their sustainable ways, showing the positive results out of them and encouraging their customers to be part of that.
The theoritical framework was based on collecting academic sources, closely related to event management, global environmental issues, and sustainability. In addition, secondary sources, such as the official webpages of the several sustainable music festivals, were taken in consideration, too.
The thesis research methodology was qualitative. Furthermore, the research method aimed at analyzing the approaches the four big music festivals have made, in order to be sustainable and successful at the same time.
The findings indicated that different environmentally sustainable solutions are made by the four researched festivals. Moreover, they all have found out ways for reducing the energy- and water consumption, as well as, the waste. For instance, using mostly reusable energy, LED lights, providing free water taps, encouraging their visitors to use reusable bottles to refill, prohibiting all plastics cups and utensils, providing compost toilets, etc.
In sum, each of the four study cases has its own impact on raising the public environmental awareness. These few European festivals do it by providing the mentioned solutions, constantly developing their sustainable ways, showing the positive results out of them and encouraging their customers to be part of that.