About the authors
Julia Rutherford Silvers, Certified Special Events Professional, was an adjunct faculty member of the Tourism and Convention Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for which she taught meetings and event risk management and meetings and event coordination online. She designed and wrote the Event Management Training Program for South Africa’s Tourism Learnership Project National Certificate in Tourism: Event Support, the CSEP Study Course Workbook for the International Special Events Society, as well as numerous distance learning courses, instructional videos, CD ROM lectures, books, magazine articles, and award-winning research papers on event management topics. She developed the Event Management Body of Knowledge ...
