Single course
International Congresses
In this course you will deepen your understanding in event industry and business travel by focusing on international congresses and meetings. You will understand the special features of scientific congresses and learn the planning and implementation process of international congresses.
Content
- Meetings industry as part of tourism
- Terminology within meetings industry
- Operators and service providers within meetings industry
- International congress planning and management process
- Special features of scientific congresses
- Critical success factors of international congresses
Objectives
The purpose of this course is to deepen your understanding in event industry and business travel by focusing on international congresses and meetings. You will understand the special features of scientific congresses and learn the planning and implementation process of international congresses both in theory and in practice. By identifying the international structure of meetings industry, and different operators both in the field, it is easier for you to make career plans within meetings industry.
Competences:
Tourism business, Proactive development
Learning objectives:
You understand the role of international congresses as part of meetings industry, business travel and event industry. You identify the terminology used in meetings industry. You identify operators and service providers within meetings industry. You know the phases of planning and managing international congresses and apply them in practice.
Implementation methods
In this course project learning is utilized as a primary learning method. You will first learn about the content through theory and company visits and visitors. Then you will apply the knowledge into practise by participating to the planning and implementation of an event together with your collegues and stakeholders of the event.
Prerequisites
You understand the concepts related to service operations and has basic customer competence. You understand the general concepts and phenomena related to tourism.
Additional information
Lectures in classroom, Rajakatu Campus, Jyväskylä. Course includes various visiting industry specialists supporting student's knowhow about the meetings industry development and future aspects.
Students' building of local networks and industry knowledge is supported with visits to local meetings venues.
Students participate in the practical organization of an international TiP (Theory in Practice) conference. The project work includes tasks before the conference, during the conference week (week 12), and after the conference.
In this course project learning is utilized as a primary learning method. You will first learn about the content through theory and company visits and visitors. Then you will apply the knowledge into practise by participating to the planning and implementation of an event together with your collegues and stakeholders of the event.
Prerequisite: You understand the concepts related to service operations and has basic customer competence. You understand the general concepts and phenomena related to tourism.
The course code is MT00CG08-3002. Use the code to view the course schedule at https://lukkarit.peppi.jamk.fi.
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Please notice that degree students in Jamk who have enrolled for attendance in are not eligible to enroll as Jamk Open UAS students (instead, enrolment in Peppi).
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