Olympic Games Legacy: From General Benefits to Sustainable Long-Term Legacy

Leopkey, Becca; Parent, Milena M.

doi:10.1080/09523367.2011.623006

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“…While this discourse continues to grow advocating for conceptions of planned legacies (Leopkey & Parent, 2012), it is often overlooked that the sustainability of benefits derived from one-off mega-events is inherently limited because of their one-time temporal character. Conversely, the massive investment and construction of facilities may have long-term detrimental implications for the host city and surrounding communities (Hall & Hodges, 1996;Prasad, 1999;Roche, 1994;Searle, 2002).…”

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Planning and Leveraging Event Portfolios: Towards a Holistic Theory

Ziakas

2014

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

114

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This conceptual paper seeks to advance the discourse on the leveraging and legacies of events by examining the planning, management, and leveraging of event portfolios. This examination shifts the common focus from analyzing single events towards multiple events and purposes that can enable cross-leveraging among different events in pursuit of attainment and magnification of specific ends. The following frameworks are proposed:(1) event portfolio planning and leveraging, and (2) analyzing events networks and interorganizational linkages. These frameworks are intended to provide, at this infancy stage of event portfolios research, a solid ground for building theory on the management of different types and scales of events within the context of a portfolio aimed to obtain, optimize and sustain tourism, as well as broader community benefits.

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Planning and Leveraging Event Portfolios: Towards a Holistic Theory

Ziakas

2014

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management

114

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“…Since the beginning of the 20s Olympic legacy became an Olympic demand for hosting the games (Leopkey and Parent 2012). Impacts created by the Olympic Games and affecting the host city, can be categorized into three major areas: Environmental, Social/Cultural and Economic (IOC, 2015).…”

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Educational Olympic Legacy: The Public Use Of Sport Facilities After The Games

Wegman¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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One of the important issues of the Olympic Games is the legacy created for the hosting city. Olympic legacy can be defined as positive impacts on the hosting city and its people, lasting for a long time. Since the beginning of the 20s Olympic legacy became an Olympic demand for hosting the games. One of the social impacts has an educational aspect of reusing the Olympic sport facilities. The assumption is that construction of new sport facilities and reusing the Olympic sport facilities after the Games can bring significant increase in the sport activity of the people that will utilize the improved conditions. The educational idea of physical activity as a life style that can promote quality of life and helps in improving mental and physical health, point to the importance of the public reuse of Olympic sport facilities after the Games.The aim of this paper was to analyse the educational issue of public reuse of Olympic sport facilities after the Games in four hosting cities, two cities hosting summer Games (Athens 2004, London 2012, and two cities hosting winter Games (Salt Lake City 2002, Vancouver 2010. In order to achieve its purpose, a qualitative approach (four cases) was used in this paper. Results and comparison of the four cases were discussed, while examining the factors influencing the public reuse of Olympic sport facilities.

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“…Having the actual Olympics overdo the previous one in these terms has been an unwritten rule [3]. From this perspective, the most notable herald of a new age was the 2008 Olympics in Peking, when the realisation of sustainability was elevated to a whole new level [4]. Regardless, the cessation of Hungary's planning process, and the social resistance against the Budapest 2024 Olympics both had their reasons.…”

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confidence: 99%