DocumentCode
1677520
Title
The Sports Tourism Impacts - The Case Study of Olympics Event
Author
Han, Yichen ; Sun, Haojie ; Dong, Yu ; Li, Yong
fYear
2011
Firstpage
71
Lastpage
74
Abstract
In recent decades, tourism industry has rapidly developed, and that also brings various impacts to the destinations and nations, particularly in economic impact. Therefore more and more experts would like to contribute to this field, and research different types of tourism. This study will concentrate on sports tourism, Olympic Games and the various benefits and impacts experienced by host cities and host countries. Further to discuss if the Olympics create good opportunities to improvement of national and international image and what impacts will be generated by the event. In general, the impacts divide two categories which are positive and negative. Based on this research, it will get abundant reasonable and valuable methods, effective experiences. Then, to minimize the negative impact, encourage the positive one.
Keywords
Cities and towns; Economics; Games; Industries; Media; Transportation; Water resources; Olympics event; positive and negative impacts of sports tourism; sports tourism events; tourism industry;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Future Computer Science and Education (ICFCSE), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Xi´an, China
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1562-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICFCSE.2011.26
Filename
6041662
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