I posted this question on SO but good friends there told me that SE is the better place for these kind of questions and the post was locked there by community. Hence, posting the question here as well:

I have a lead to build an event manager solution in LAMP with following functionality:

It should handle events by country, city, locality in city, type of event, venue type etc.

following are a few user features:

• to see details of city, venue, event, performer etc.
• to purchase tickets and reserve tables.
• to search for events by city, venue, type, performer etc.
• to manage favorite venues and performers, save events etc.
• the venues should be able to add their events

I plan to use a CMS (Joomla, Drupal etc.) with some ready made extension that provides most of the functionality or provide framework to build upon.

Could you guys suggest me a CMS and an extension to build this. I know it is possible to do this in both Joomla or Drupal. What I am looking is the extension that is closest to my requirements whether it is done in Joomla or Drupal, or as a matter of fact any other CMS.

Thanks in anticipation!