Abstract:
A Studying Guideline of Marketing Communication Management for Music and Performing Arts International Festival, Burapha University aimed to, 1) study about the problems of marketing communication for Music and Performing Arts International Festival, Burapha University 2) present the suitable ways to manage marketing communication for Music and Performing Arts International Festival, Burapha University, by using depth interview and participants observation as the research tools. The findings indicated the problems of marketing communication for the festival as follows 1) the problem of understanding the audience's behaviors 2) the problem of choosing marketing media 3) time duration problem 4) staff problem and 5) dealing with local organizations problem. And the solutions base on the theory of special event creation were suggestedas follows 1) the festival should be conducted once every two years in order to set appropriate time frame, manageable marketing plan and increase the amounts of performances 2) set the actual target audiences 3) use bilingual media (Thai and English languages) to communicate to the target 4) having a good target research, operation management, and marketing plan would reduce staff's workload and help staff to manage marketing communication plan effectively 5) the festival sholud make more relationship with local organizations to recieve more sponsership, such as financial support and cooperate 6) use marketing media that can add more values to the festival such as differentiation, sponsorship, marketing promotion, costs analysis, business alliances, channel of distribution, brand awareness and customer relationship management. The audiences satisfaction survey would be collected and analyzed to correct problems and improve the performance for next time