• 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