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Benefits of Hosting a
Major Sporting Event
- Increase in direct and indirect tourism
- Results in more people
spending money. Visitors may
come again another time.
Shows the place a positive
light.
- Indirect tourism is where you would
use the hotels and resturants and
going to other attractions where the
major sporting event is, for example
the london 2012 olympics, you could
go and see the london eye and
parliment.
- Investment in developing
transport links
- For example, At the London 2012
olympics they built underground,
roads, car parks and on the
motorways they did restrictions, if you
were going to london olympics you
could only use that road.
- Commercial
Benefits
- For example, for any major
sporting event you get
sponsorships, brings in loads
of money
- Infrastructure
- Social facilities can be built for
the major sporting event,
where overtime after the event
people can use them.
- For example in london 2012 olympics people
can rent the houses or stay in them from the
olympic village where all the performers
lived in during the event.
- Sports
facilities
- Many major sporting events require, new or
significantly upgraded facilities, this can
therefore in the future be used by local clubs or
local residents.
- For example, the london 2012 olympics
can be used for local residents and in
tennis in wimbledon you can use their
professional courts.
- Participation
increasing in sports
- For example, when you host the major
sporting event and the hosting country also
wins the compettion can increase the rate
of people playing that sport.
- Fell good
factor
- Is a widespread of feeling and well
being of your country acheiving the
best of them and winning the
competion
- Shop window
effect
- Thois is where the event is
pulicised and advertised. where
politicians use sport to promote
their country
- National groups use the shop
window effect for nation
building. and increase morale
of people.