Night of Light appeals to save the event industry
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Within a very short time, the official requirements in the course of Corona crisis the whole Event management pushed to the brink. A huge branch of the economy has been deprived of its basis of work practically overnight, and a wave of bankruptcies of enormous proportions threatens. On June 22, 2020, the industry will set up the initiative at night night of light a fiery appeal to politics.
Content of the event report:
- Night of light in more than 200 cities
- Event management will not survive the next 100 days
- Dramatic situation in the event industry
The corona crisis has serious consequences for the labor market and cultural diversity as the mainstay of our society. The Night of Light campaign brings together market participants from all areas of the event industryin order to set an example for the endangered branch in a concerted action. Those affected also want to call for a dialogue with politicians in order to find solutions and ways out of the dramatic situation.
Night of light in more than 200 cities
In the night from June 22.06.2020nd, 23.06.2020 to June 200rd, XNUMX, the participants will be playing venues, event locations, structures and buildings in more than XNUMX cities nationwide with red light draw attention to yourself and your situation. Many luminous memorials will be arranged to form a huge light monument. The flaming appeal is intended to create an entry into an industry dialogue in order to address the diversity and system relevance of the German event industry.
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Only folk festivals, concerts, company parties and Trade Shows usually move in Germany almost 500 million visitors a year and may not take place at all or only under considerable conditions until further notice.
The current aid programs essentially consist of loan programs. However, this will only result in renewed insolvency in connection with the over-indebtedness of the companies concerned. This is because these loans cannot be invested in a value-adding manner, but must be used to cover operating costs.
Event management will not survive the next 100 days
For the initiator of the "Night of Light" campaign and board member of LK-AG Essen, Tom Koperek, the entire industry is on the red list of dying industries: “The event industry won't survive the next 100 days! The current requirements and restrictions make it virtually impossible to hold events economically. "
This affects not only the organizers, but also venues as well as suppliers and service providers of all types and sizes, such as stage and stand builders, technology companies, outfitters, logisticians, caterers and all professions from artists to sole proprietorships, content, script, and direction or contribute floral decorations to events.
"Nothing works anymore!", is Koperek's gloomy conclusion about the plight of a heterogeneous industry in the Corona crisis, which combines over 150 different trades and special disciplines. That is why it does not have a uniform lobby.
It is therefore all the more important to ensure that politics and the public are more aware of it. That is too the goal of the initiative for the event industry, which already on March 06, 2020 by the initiator Sandra Beckman was launched. For the Night of Light there is also a cooperation to carry out this Germany-wide campaign.
450 companies registered in the first 72 hours
After an initial call to participate in the campaign, the first 72 hours are already over 450 companies various areas of the event industry followed to participate. There are more every hour.
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Combined into an overarching interest and working group, they will jointly initiate the unmistakable Night of Light from June 22nd from 22pm to June 23rd at 1am. It is supposed to become a shining memorial to the rescue of an industry under the sign of Corona that needs real help instead of loan programs.
Dramatic situation in the event industry
The events industry was the first branch of the economy to be hit by the Corona crisis and it is very likely that it will be affected by the effects for the longest and most profoundly. In fact, all of the above companies have been banned from events since March 10, 2020 within a few working days lost all of their backlog.
The event industry has practically stopped making sales since mid-March. Unlike in the manufacturing industry, lost sales can no longer be made up. Neither can anything be produced in stock.
Most of the companies in the industry are Service. Even if high demand were to set in after the crisis caused by the coronavirus ended, the loss suffered can no longer be compensated. The event industry as a whole is one of the largest sectors of the German economy and has over 1 million employees. It will be an annual one Core sales of more than 10 billion euros earned. If you include the cultural and creative industries with their event-related sub-markets and supplier markets, more than three hundred thousand companies in over 150 disciplines employ more than 3 million people and achieve one Annual turnover of over 200 billion euros! 1
The temporary ban on major events until August 31, 2020 and a subsequent lead-up to planning events will make it one 80 to 100 percent loss of sales give for a period of at least eight months.
The color red of the Night of Light is intended to express the following
- The event management is located on the Red List of the dying industries
- Red alert, because a billion dollar market and hundreds of thousands of jobs are in
- We are a community and have one common goal Industry dialogue with politics.
- We set one up fiery appeal to the public.
- The Red color stands for the passion for our job / our profession.
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