Link to the Article:
https://www.mpi.org/blog/article/science-and-creativity-safe-in-person-events-in-texas
ARTICLE SUMMARY
The respective article “Science and Creativity: Safe In-Person Events in Texas” emphasizes the fulfillment of accurate guidelines for safe in-person events combining the scientific measures and creativity to conduct such safe events with respect to the “South Padre Island Convention Centre” located in Texas. The main paradigm of the article is planning in-person events by following the safety considerations and standard operating procedures to conduct meetings, public gatherings, political events, and conventions. The proper safety guidelines should be implicated as given by the “Convention and Visitors Bureau” and the “U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”. The main safety guidelines highlighted are the provision of hand sanitizer stations, checking of temperature, wearing masks, entrance and exit path flows, social distancing markers painted on the floors/ floor stickers, and limited capacity for indoor events. The validation of the implication of these safety protocols and guidelines is provided by “Ed Caum (executive director of the City of South Padre Island CVB), Casandra Matej (president and CEO of Visit San Antonio), and Mackenzie Borden (Phil Waldrop Ministries)”. Furthermore, Beverly Anderson who is the director of event management (Hilton Anatole Dallas) states that they faced critical problems while planning one of the first outdoor events with creative standard operating procedures against the coronavirus. The convention centers, meeting industry, and the community is strictly following the safety guidelines. The events planners are emphasizing innovative solutions for making their post-pandemic events creative and safe for the people attending. Rehearsals are mandatory for exercising these protocols to make the staff comfortable with new safety considerations and analyze the problems which can be faced during the actual event. As the time is evolving with the global pandemic, event management, and planners are working on innovative ways to follow the guidelines provided by the government and make their events safe, creative, and engaging.
PERSONAL REVIEW OF THE ARTICLE
I find this article engaging, concise, clear, and practically relatable to our current circumstances in the hospitality business due to the global pandemic of the coronavirus. Proper evidence has been backed up for all the information quoted in the article. The sources quoted in the article validate the point of notion given making it clear that all the standard operating procedures are provided by the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The article elucidates different main personalities of Texas such as Ed Caum, Casandra Matej, and Beverly Anderson to shed light upon the in-person events which are taking place in Texas. All the safety guidelines and considerations are vividly associated with different types of in-person events such as conventions (e.g. Women of Joy), a forum for political events (council person and mayor election), theatre plays (e.g. El Paseo), and business meetings. The most positive point of the article is that it sheds light upon the hope and the positive aspects of the post-pandemic situation in planning creative and safe events. In the current situation of dilemma, this article provides enlightening prospects for better in-person events with proper evidence and interviews with the main personalities of Texas. These social congregations have been emphasized in the article by careful safety measures/ protocols and a local focus on Texas. In order to show the idea of creativity and safety together, the joyful and engaging events in Texas are included in the article. These engaging events include the blooming leisure business of South Padre Island and theatre plays that are running with meticulous safety protocols. I find this article highly associated with the discipline of hospitality with the explicating details about hospitality business (hotels, convention centers, vacation rentals, etc.), which sheds importance upon the importance of hospitality in the future.
REFERENCES
Potter, Blair. (2020) Science and Creativity: Safe In-Person Events in Texas | MPI. MPIWeb. Retrieved February 8, 2021, from ~/blog
