Building resilience and managing crises and disasters in sport tourism

Bouncing Back and Jumping Forward: Scoping the Resilience Landscape of International Sports Events And Implications for Events and Festivals

“…This increased (public) awareness of vulnerability and the need for greater resilience, merged with the growing global profile of ISEs, now makes mitigation and prevention not just socially and economically acceptable, but also an imperative (see Shipway, 2018). As such, this article facilitates 2004,2009), and there is no desire to replicate or further dissect many of these, an initial review of literature on crisis and disaster management in sport indicates a significant paucity of studies.…”

“…Despite these contributions and the wider body of tourism-specific work, in the domain of sports events studies the field is clearly at an early and descriptive stage with considerable work to be undertaken on shaping research agendas and future directions (Shipway, 2018). As such, in the context of ISEs it is important to identify gaps in knowledge and contribute to understanding future research directions, most notably with respect to developing resilience.…”

“…This will also have notable implications for planning and developing greater levels of resilience. Additionally, given that long standing recurring events are often hosted in the same host city, this might also indicate greater levels of experience and knowledge management than less frequent emerging, one-off major or megainternational sports events (see Shipway, 2018).…”

“…From a resilience perspective, this additional dimension of changing host location, often due to the increasingly competitive biddings agenda of many host cities and nations, represents a notable proposition that has major implications for the way we think about the resilience of such events in terms of crisis and disaster management. For example, variations in sites of mega-events, such as Olympic Games or FIFA Football World Cups, also leads to much greater complexity in gauging risk to crisis and disasters that are differentiated across the world (Shipway, 2018).…”

“…In terms of vulnerability to natural disasters, differing regions and host countries are subject to variances in types, forms, and frequency of natural hazards, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, and/or tsunamis (see Miles, Gordon, & Bang, 2017). Additionally, as the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games highlighted with the zika virus, there are differing vulnerabilities to health hazards and even communicable diseases (Shipway, 2018;Walters, Shipway, Miles, & Aldrigui, 2017). Moreover, in the developing world, man-made threats and risks such as crime rates, kidnapping, insurgencies, terrorism, or conflict may be more notable.…”