Description
?If?the?main?argument?for?hosting?a?mega?event?like?the?Winter?Olympics?is?the?long?term?economic?impacts?it
will?generate,?the?Lillehammer?experience?quite?clearly?points?to?the?conclusion?that?it?is?a?waste?of?money??
To?what?extent?do?you?agree?with?Spilling?s?view??<\/p>\n
BA (Hons) Management, Leadership & Leisure<\/p>\n
Sport & Development
Year 3<\/p>\n
2016\/17<\/p>\n
Assignment <\/p>\n
?If the main argument for hosting a mega-event like the Winter Olympics is the long-term economic impacts it will generate, the Lillehammer experience quite clearly points to the conclusion that it is a waste of money? <\/p>\n
(Spilling, O.R. (1998), Beyond Intermezzo? On the Long-Term Industrial Impacts of Mega Events: The Case of Lillehammer 1994, Festival Management & Event Tourism, Vol 5, pp 101-122., p121)<\/p>\n
To what extent do you agree with Spilling?s view? <\/p>\n
Examples should be used to support your arguments <\/p>\n
Assessment criteria<\/p>\n
Introduction 5%
Selection and use of sources 20%
Discussion and analysis 30%
Use of examples 20%
Conclusion 10%
Referencing and bibliography 10%
Presentation 5%<\/p>\n
Word count ? 3,000 words<\/p>\n
BA (Hons) Management Leadership & Leisure
Sport & Development<\/p>\n
Reading List
2016\/17<\/p>\n
Core texts<\/p>\n
Coalter, F. (2007), A wider social role for sport: Who?s keeping the score? Routledge<\/p>\n
Gold, J. R. & Gold, M.M. (2007), Olympic Cities: City agendas, planning and the world games, 1896-2012, Routledge<\/p>\n
Gratton, C & Henry, I.P. (2001), Sport in the city: The role of sport in economic and social regeneration, Routledge<\/p>\n
Holt, R. & Ruta, D. (2015), Routledge handbook of sport and legacy: Meeting the challenge of major sports events, Routledge<\/p>\n
Horne, J. & Whannel. G. (2016), Understanding the Olympics, (2nd edition) Routledge<\/p>\n
Maennig, W. & Zimbalist, A. (2012), International handbook on the economics of mega sporting events, Edward Elgar<\/p>\n
Preuss, H. (2004), The economics of staging the Olympics: A comparison of the games 1972-2008, Edward Elgar<\/p>\n
Sam. M.P. & Hughson, J.( 2013), Sport in the city: Cultural connections, Routledge<\/p>\n
Zimbalist, A. (2015), Circus Maximus: The economic gamble behind hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Brookings Institution Press<\/p>\n
Journals<\/p>\n
European Sport Management Quarterly
Event Management
International Journal of the History of Sport
Leisure Studies
Leisure Management
Sport in Society
Tourism Management
Urban Geography
Urban Studies<\/p>\n
Examples?should?be?used?to?support?your?arguments<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Description ?If?the?main?argument?for?hosting?a?mega?event?like?the?Winter?Olympics?is?the?long?term?economic?impacts?it will?generate,?the?Lillehammer?experience?quite?clearly?points?to?the?conclusion?that?it?is?a?waste?of?money?? To?what?extent?do?you?agree?with?Spilling?s?view?? BA (Hons) Management, Leadership & Leisure Sport & Development Year 3 2016\/17 Assignment ?If the main argument for hosting a mega-event like the Winter Olympics is the long-term economic impacts it will generate, the Lillehammer experience Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}