World's Fair Decision Model
World's Fair/Expo
Decision Model Project
ExpoDynamics and
ExpoCheck
World's
Fair (Expo) Decision Model Study - This study of the international
attendance dynamics of the expositions of the International Bureau
of
Exhibitions (BIE), an international treaty organization with
161 signatory nations, or those of unsanctioned status, represents an
attempt to interpolate the factors that have led to the success or
failure of events within the history of international expositions. The
goal of the ten year study was to ascertain which factors of size,
scope, ticket pricing policy, regional predisposition, expo proximity
to past events, as well as many others, constitute the most important
factors to the attendance and financial goals of an exposition and how
future expos will be able to use past data to develop master financial
plans, with accurate attendance forecasts that mirror outcomes.
The international expo field, whose start began with the Crystal Palace
Exhibition 1851 in London, England, reaches across the globe to
incorporate hundreds of expositions, from those sanctioned by the BIE,
to those of horticultural, regional, and national scope. They represent
events, not unlike the Olympics, of international cooperation and
competition, and have been at the forefront of some of the most
important historical achievements of the past 150 years, from the first
public displays of the Edison's phonograph and Bell's phone to the more
recent displays of technology in oceanagraphy.
However, over the past thirty years, it has become more and more
apparent that these events should not be viewed in a feasibility study
vacuum, with any new proposal started from virtual scratch for its
projections. Many experts within this field, including presidents and
secretary-generals of the Bureau of International Expositions, have
decried the need for some unbiased view, a broad based unbiased
assistance that will make these events more viable in the present and
future. The accumulation of data that was necessary for this study, as
well as the economic decision model that sprung from that, represents
over 10 years of work of JDP ECON, plus the labor and assistance of
several hundreds experts
in the field.
JDP Econ is currently using the World's Fair Decision Model as the
basis for in house publishing projects, including The
Vancouver Games: A Spectacular Choice: Following in the Footsteps of
Canada's Expo and Olympics Success
JDP ECON is now developing its EXPOcheck series of reports, providing
an unbiased, independent review of approved events in the coming years,
beginning with Zaragoza and Expo 2008 plus Shanghai and Expo 2010. These independent
attendance dynamics reports based on the World's Fair Decision Model
are great additions to the information provided by official sources and
may be useful to public planners, exhibitors, concessionaires, media,
and others interested in the upcoming events.
JDP ECON is providing these on an independent basis, and these reports,
as well as upcoming EXPOdynamics reports, are not available as
work-for-hire documents.
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2012 JDP ECON. All worldwide
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