This study examines the environmental discourses surrounding the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics in the Korean public sphere. Specifically, it compares the dominant environmental discourse of the government and Olympic organizing committee with the counter-Olympic discourse of Korean civil society. Our...

Emerging nations with transitioning or newly transformed brands are increasingly using sport as a branding platform to generate and communicate strong and coherent brands. This is done in acknowledgement of sport as a powerful agent for destination branding. While many studies on sport mega-events...

This article charts how South Korea's staging of the 2018 Winter Olympics is a further example of sport's importance among Asia's major economies. It is indicated that the staging of the Olympics has been a key step in the development of the Asian nations that have hosted the games. The article...

The FIFA World Cup is one of the largest sporting events in the world, encompassing hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in every edition. Several studies have tried to measure the economic impacts of this event on the income of hosting countries. However, besides the...

We use daily airplane arrival data from 2004 to 2015 from Hawaii's Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to determine the net change in arrivals around a variety of sporting events. We find that only one event generates a positive and significant net impact on airplane arrivals: ...

This research aims to describe (1) the impacts of neutrality of intent and economic welfare on expectations of positive legacies, and (2) the impacts of expected positive legacies on support for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. This study drew on social exchange, liberal egalitarianism, and welfare...

The assumption that events can have positive economic impacts has increased interest in their hosting by many destinations worldwide. Although attendees are a constitutive part of events, scarce research has empirically analyzed their behavior from an economic standpoint. In particular, further...

The research analyses the sports and mega-sports events impact on the economics. The authors gathered studies and literature about the major sports markets, mega sports events, the economics of sports and the case study for the EuroBasket 2015 Latvia. Mostly, sport is viewed from the results, but...

Purpose - Smaller events have been favoured by many commentators in sports research because mega events have been criticised for failing to have an aggregate positive advantage to local communities, especially in developing countries. On 4th August 2010 Kenya promulgated a new constitution which...

This is the fourth article published by the journal Apunts. Educación Física y Deportes on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Olympics. The purpose of the series is to analyse the impact of the Olympics on the city and the country one quarter of a century after the capital of...