EMBOK Day at the Las Vegas International Hospitality and Convention Summit

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

The progress of the Event Management Body of Knowledge (EMBOK) was the focus of a day-long review and discussion of the International EMBOK Model at the 2006 Las Vegas International Hospitality and Convention Summit, held June 4-6 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

The initial global EMBOK framework and taxonomy, based on a comparison of the knowledge systems supporting the event management industry including numerous occupational standards, certification knowledge domains, academic curriculums and literature review, was introduced by Julia Rutherford Silvers at the 2004 Las Vegas International Hospitality and Convention Summit and expanded at the 2004 International EMBOK Imbizo (the Zulu word for gathering).

This was the first time an analytical review of the EMBOK was conducted within the United States. The International EMBOK Model had been developed and reviewed at two previous Imbizos held in South Africa in 2004 and 2005, which included participants from Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Participants from industry and academia were in attendance as this conceptual framework for a common international event management body of knowledge was examined and strategies were discussed to facilitate its further development, usage and ratification.

The full report on the results of EMBOK Day, with comments on it provided by Philip Mondor of the Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council, is up on the Forum of the International EMBOK web site at http://www.embok.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=249.