This book focuses on event planning and management, outcomes, the experience of events and the meanings attached to them, the dynamic processes shaping events and why people attend them. Acknowledgements, Basic Concepts in Event Studies, Introduction and Overview of Event Studies, The World of Planned Events, Foundation Disciplines and Closely Related Fields, Anthropology and Sociology and Philosophy and Religious Studies and Psychology, Economics and Management and Political Science and Law and History and Human Geography and Future Studies, Closely Related Professional Fields, Framework for Understanding and Creating Knowledge, The Event Experience and Meanings, The Event Experience and Meanings, Event Design, Antecedents and Decision-Making, Planning and Management of Events, Outcomes and the Impacted, Events and Pubic Policy, Conclusion, Science and Knowledge and Theory for Event Studies, References, Index.