The present invention relates to a gathering event processing method and apparatuses. The method comprises the steps of acquiring a quantity of terminals in a target region; if the quantity of the terminals is greater than a preset quantity, acquiring region position information of the target region; and controlling a target terminal to output gathering event information, so as to remind a user of the gathering event in the target region, wherein the gathering event information comprises the region position information. In the method, a camera is not adopted for monitoring the gathering event, so that the monitoring cost is lowered, furthermore, the monitoring area is large, and the monitoring efficiency is high.