Do local businesses benefit from sports facilities? The case of major league sports stadiums and arenas

A study of the influence of sports venues on the intra-city population layout based on multi-source data—Taking Xi’an city and Zhengzhou city as examples

“…Therefore, as a carrier of residents’ leisure and sports activities, sports venues not only have the function of leisure and entertainment but also have certain social symbolic functions. Additionally, studies have proven that the distribution of sports venues is closely related to the size of the population [ 24 , 28 , 29 ]. To explore the influence of the density of the stadium distribution on the intra-city population distribution in Xi’an and Zhengzhou cities, scatter plots were created based on normalized data from Xi’an and Zhengzhou cities using Stata 16 and Origin 2018 software ( Fig 6 ).…”

“…With the improvement in global world sportsmanship, the establishment of the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, the implementation of China’s national fitness, strong sports and Healthy China initiatives, and the United Nations call for active sports during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine, the interest of the global public in physical activity is growing. As a vehicle for physical activity, studies have recognized the aggregation of population distribution [ 24 ], residents’ well-being [ 25 ], personal physical activity levels [ 26 ], and regional quality of life [ 27 ]. The improvement in various aspects, such as the density of their distribution and the degree of their input, is increasingly linked.…”

Analysis on spatial difference and spillover effect of development resilience index of sports industry: A case study of 285 cities in China

“…Therefore, this study believes that there are still the following aspects that can be further improved in the follow-up work. (1) The spatial correlation of the sports industry SIDRC discussed in previous sections can be abstracted as a related network, or the development related network of the sports industry, which reveals the regional adaptability and resilience from the aspects of correlation and integrity, and has more connotation than the current study from the perspective of "flow space'' theory; (2) The influencing factors of the sports industry SIDRC selection in this study mostly focus on social and economic aspects, which is clearly not sufficient and should be further explored in future research. These problems will be discussed further in our subsequent research.…”

“…The sports industry as an emerging industry has vigorous market vitality and potential economic growth space [1]. As people pursue a healthy lifestyle and with the gradual release of post-pandemic consumption dividends, countries around the world have begun to regard the sports industry as an important pillar industry to promote economic development [2].…”

“…In view of the problems existing in the current research, this study takes 285 cities in China as the research object, based on theoretical and ideological fields such as economic geography, spatial economics, and system science, comprehensively using Topsis model and exploratory spatial data analysis to evaluate the resilience of the sports industry development, identify its differences in the time and space dimensions, and construct spatial econometric models to discuss the impact factors and spatial spillover effects of sports industry development resilience index. The main contributions of this study include: (1) proposing the concept of industry development resilience index. The coupling and complexity of the sports industry determine that a single-dimensional evaluation is one-sided.…”