For example , today is earth day , even the Google logo was changed , and at all the events , the logo changes and if you click the logo , you go to a search page like http://www.google.ro/search?q=earth+day . First result at me is ww2.earthday.net/ , after that wikipedia and earthday.gov ... How much makes the first sites from that search ? Maybe ever person clicked atleast once on the Google Earth Day logo ... That's lots of visits
I think it's a good niche, but guess you should somehow limit the events by smth. I provide event info, separated by countries/different sites/, but do not get much traffic from these, neither this is sites' main purpose... However, from few international events I've got good traffic and sales.