Abstract

The outbreak of COVID-19 has negatively impacted the event industry, while offering it opportunities to reinvent itself. Reviewing some of Getz (2012) futurist thoughts, is part of this reinvention process. This study concludes that: (a) Future Proposition 2 is accurate (b) Future Propositions 1 and 7 need precisions, and as a result has been reformulated as follow:

 New Future Proposition 1: Planned, live events, both personal and societal in scale and meaning, will always be a prominent feature of civilization, in all societies and cultures. However, in time of pandemics or other crisis, live events might be perturbed, before a staggered return to normal under certain conditions, and strict controls.

 New Future Proposition 7: As travel and tourism collapse, possibly because of the cascading effects of global warming, another energy crisis, war terrorism or global pandemics, events will also collapse temporarily, but will remain important globally because they meet fundamental human needs.

 On top of Getz (2012) future thoughts, this study suggests additional Future Propositions.

摘要

COVID-19的爆发给事件行业带来了负面影响，同时也为其提供了重塑自我的机会。回顾Getz（2012）的一些未来主义思想，是这一重塑过程的一部分。这项研究得出的结论是：（a）未来命题2是准确的（b）未来命题1和7需要精确，因此，其结果重新表述如下：

 新的未来命题1：在规模和意义上，有计划的现场活动，无论是个人的还是社会的，在所有社会和文化中，始终都是文明的突出特征。但是，在大流行或其他危机期间，现场事件可能会受到干扰，在某些情况下以及严格控制之前会突然恢复正常。

 新的未来命题7：随着旅行和旅游业的崩溃，可能是由于全球变暖，另一场能源危机，战争恐怖主义或全球流行病的连锁反应，事件也将暂时崩溃，但由于它们满足了人类的基本需求，因此在全球仍将是重要的。

 在Getz（2012）的未来思想之上，本研究提出了其他“未来主张”。