Sustainability in the events industry

This chapter critically discusses why sustainability is important for the events industry in the future. In future, the events industry needs to adopt sustainability management steps that consider event impacts, and event organizers will be required to adopt policies that take an analytical approach to sustainability management and climate change. The principal theme for this chapter is to provide strategic guidelines to events industry leaders to reform approaches to waste management, reusing materials used at events, sharing resources, and renewable transportation to reduce carbon emissions. The chapter further highlights the steps that have already been taken and additional policies that move towards imperative sustainability steps to achieve instrumental success for the whole events industry.