Youth multi-sport events in Austria: tourism strategy or just a coincidence?

Schnitzer, Martin; Schlemmer, Philipp; Kristiansen, Elsa

doi:10.1080/14775085.2017.1300102

Cited by 19 publications

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“…As expected, this factor structure can be divided into positive (environmental improvements, decline of terrorist threats, and traffic relief) and negative impacts (community deconsolidation, knowledge and entertainment diminution, community visibility and image deterioration, economic problems, and decline in socio-cultural exchange). This is also consistent with many previous findings on the perceived impacts of sporting events (see [1,10,21,22,24,26,28,29,31,38,39,43,44]). However, two minor deviations arise within the items.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…Economic and related tourism benefits are the most visible, and local residents usually perceive them as the most beneficial. They include such benefits as new investments, new employment, and increased tourism figures and tax revenues [1,[21][22][23][24][25][26] but also include some non-monetary effects like improvements to a country's or destination's image [27,28]. On the other hand, sporting events can also produce excessive spending (on the event), increased taxes, and higher costs of living (higher prices of products and housing) for local residents [10,[29][30][31].…”

Section: Positive and Negative Impacts Of Sporting Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Socio-Economic Impacts of Event Failure: The Case of a Cancelled International Cycling Race

Perić

Vitezić

2019

Sustainability

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The organization of large-scale sporting events implies different benefits and costs for hosting communities. However, little effort has been devoted to studying the impacts of event failures or postponed or cancelled events from the perspective of local residents. This paper is therefore concerned with the range of local residents’ perceived impacts resulting from the cancellation of the 2019 edition of the international men’s cycling race Tour of Croatia. In addition, it also examines if any significant differences exist between local residents familiar with the race and cancelling and local residents not familiar with the race, regarding the perceived impacts of this cancelled event on the hosting community. The number of perceived impacts was reduced by Exploratory Factor Analysis. Differences between local residents familiar with and those not familiar with the race and its cancelation were examined using the two-independent-samples Mann-Whitney U test. The results suggest that local residents not familiar with the event and its cancelation, when compared with local residents familiar with the event and its cancellation, perceive the majority of negative impacts as being weaker and most of the positive impacts as being stronger.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Positive and Negative Impacts Of Sporting Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-Economic Impacts of Event Failure: The Case of a Cancelled International Cycling Race

Perić

Vitezić

2019

Sustainability

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“…In the scientific literature, we find many studies relating to the legacy of events, seen in the form of impact, or return to a host city/country and/or from the point of view of the event rights holder (Preuss, 2015;Schnitzer, Schlemmer & Kristiansen 2017).…”

Section: Legacymentioning

confidence: 99%

The perceptions of stakeholders in small-scale sporting events

Bazzanella

Peters

Schnitzer

2019

Journal of Convention & Event Tourism

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Small-scale events represent an important asset for the development of tourist destinations. As local stakeholders play a major role in conceptualizing and developing small-scale events, this study sheds light upon stakeholders' perceptions toward such events. The current study was carried out through qualitative interviews based on the case of the FIS (International Ski Federation) World Junior Alpine Ski Championships 2019. The findings of this study reveal that for small-scale event success, the involvement of local stakeholders in the decision-making process is key. Furthermore, stakeholder involvement makes the decision-making processes when staging an event more effective across all organizational phases. The findings invite event managers and policy makers to involve local stakeholders in the organization processes of small-scale events. The research on small-scale events is enriched by the evidence that partial involvement of the stakeholders in the organizational processes reaches a limit in what Freeman (2010) describes as "stakeholder management capacity". ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Predominantly, most academic research examines the economic and social sustainability of sport events (see Smith, 2009;Balduck et al, 2011;Li & Jago, 2013;Taks, 2013;Ramchandani et al, 2014;Djaballah et al, 2015;Han et al, 2015;Schnitzer et al, 2017), so that, only recently has the inquiry into the environmental sustainability of sport events grown. Environmental sustainability can generally be understood in terms of the sport event industry, as consisting of the organisers involved striving to attain minimal impact on the natural environment in the hosting of such an event (Mair & Laing, 2013).…”

Section: Environmental Sustainability and Major Sport Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%