GİRİŞTurizm, yarattığı gelir getirici etkisi nedeniyle ül-kelerin çok önem verdiği ve her geçen gün de bu önemi arttırdığı sektörlerin başında gelmektedir. Bu sektörün gelişmesine katkıda bulunan etkinliklerin başında da sportif etkinlikler bulunmaktadır. Önemli spor organizasyonları, pazarlanabilen ve yönetilebilen, gerçek anlamıyla büyük etkinliklerdir (Nauright vd. 2013 ABSTRACTBecause of its income and promotional effect, countries overemphasize one of the sporting events, Olympics, which contribute to the development of not only the sports activities but also the tourism industry. For becoming wide and increasing these contributions, it can be useful to test the residents' perceptions towards the impacts of mega events like Olympic Games. The purpose of this study was to identify the Olympics Impacts Scale's (Zhou and Ap 2009) reliability and validity. The sample of the study was composed of 220 volunteered Erzurum residents whose age was between 18-60 years. Sample size was formulated with power analyze method to design research group of the study. Meanwhile, the language equivalence and test-retest correlation coefficients were estimated. After exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, the scale comprised 20 items and 3 factors. In summary, results revealed that Turkish version of Olympics Impacts Scale can be used as a reliable and valid scale to measure and evaluate residents' perceptions towards the Olympic Games.