Entrepreneurial leveraging in liminoidal olympic transit zones

Duignan, Michael B.; Down, Simon; O’Brien, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2019.102774

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“…According to the same author, the experience lived in celebratory environments (rites of passage), individually or collectively, could provide a time and space for new identities and social structures to emerge due to the distance from the identity and social norms adopted in everyday life, which could be authentic or liminoid (i.e., liminal-like, when applied to the leisure/entertainment area). The connection between the concept of liminality and the tourist experience is direct, given the inherent sense of detachment from daily routine and the change in social identity contained in such experience (Duignan et al, 2020;Wu et al, 2020). From this perspective, liminality has been studied in sport events (e.g., Duignan et al, 2020;Peachey et al, 2015), both for their celebratory nature and for their potential to free identities and daily routines of those who participate in them, either actively (i.e., as a practitioner) or passively (i.e., as a spectator).…”

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“…The connection between the concept of liminality and the tourist experience is direct, given the inherent sense of detachment from daily routine and the change in social identity contained in such experience (Duignan et al, 2020;Wu et al, 2020). From this perspective, liminality has been studied in sport events (e.g., Duignan et al, 2020;Peachey et al, 2015), both for their celebratory nature and for their potential to free identities and daily routines of those who participate in them, either actively (i.e., as a practitioner) or passively (i.e., as a spectator). Reinforcing the sharing of common values and motivations strengthens liminality (i.e., the celebratory environments generated by the events), which is enhanced through two tactics, namely, prompting the feeling of celebration and intensifying social interaction (Chalip, 2006).…”

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Strategic environmental leverage of a sport tourism event: Approaching the global challenge locally

Martins,

Pereira,

Mascarenhas

2024

EJTR

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The proactivity in the management of sport events is essential to maximise environmental benefits for the host communities through strategic leverage. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the process of strategic environmental leverage in an international nature-based non-mega event of sport tourism (Sintra PRO 2022 - stage of the IBC World Bodyboarding Tour) by means of action research. Data collection combined several methods and sources, namely, document research, nominal group sessions, field observation, and interviews conducted with organisers and partners of the event. Three actions, which synergistically linked the environmental values of community projects and the sport subculture, were implemented in order to focus stakeholders' attention on the environmental topics. The availability of local resources and the involvement of the network of local partners facilitated the implementation of environmental leverage. On the other hand, the lack of communication between those involved in the operationalisation and promotion of environmental leverage actions was a constraint in the process. This study highlights several implications for environmental leverage in sport events, as well as for the applicability of the environmental leverage model to promote strategic planning and the implementation of the resulting strategic environmental leverage actions in sport events.

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Strategic environmental leverage of a sport tourism event: Approaching the global challenge locally

Martins,

Pereira,

Mascarenhas

2024

EJTR

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“…In the context of the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the event owner's supplier and broadcast restrictions impeded achievement of economic benefits as well as the showcasing of local culture (Kelly et al, 2019). Similarly, Duignan, Down and O'Brien (2020) demonstrated how the regulation of Olympic space by 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games organisers initially precluded local business stakeholders from leveraging the Olympic opportunity.…”

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Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events

Sobral

Fairley

O’Brien

2021

Sport Management Review

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Research on event leveraging has revealed that certain constraints inhibit the realisation of desired benefits from event hosting. Using qualitative action research methods, this study examined the constraints to leveraging regular season professional sport team events for tourism. The leveraging potential of regular season professional sport team events has been largely ignoredboth by researchers and practitioners. This presented an ideal opportunity to examine the pre-leveraging phase with a view to understanding leveraging constraints. The results identified five overarching constraints: lack of collaboration; priorities and resources; perceived benefit radius; perceived tourism potential; and, unclaimed responsibility. We propose a process model to better understand how leveraging constraints emerge and can be negotiated over time. This research is among the first to demonstrate the utility of team events for inclusion in regional event portfolios. It, therefore, builds on extant knowledge by presenting a more holistic conceptualisation of the inherent constraints to event leveraging, and further, provides a basis from which to successfully negotiate these constraints.

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“…This author designs the “portfolio approach” to show the hierarchy of the four categories of events and displays the four brackets of events in a pyramid from high value and high tourist demand (mega events) to low value and low tourist demand (local events). Mega events such as the FIFA World Cup or the Olympic games (Duignan et al, 2020; Zouni et al, 2020) attract an enormous amount of money and a large number of spending tourists (Peeters et al, 2014; Vierhaus, 2019; Wood and Meng, 2020), affect the tourism development (Lepp and Gibson, 2011), and initiate a long-lived name of the hosting countries (Walker et al, 2013). Mega events are not only restricted to sports, they can include music events such as Coachella, world fairs such as Expos, or, as argued in this article, royal weddings.…”

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Will your majesty marry me? The effect of royal weddings on the tourism industry

2021

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This article fills a void in the literature by investigating the impacts of royal weddings—arguably the grandest and the most iconic of public ceremonies involving royals—on destination-level brands. The direct and short-term effects of royal families and indeed the direct effect of seminal events involving the royals on destination-level accommodations and tourism service providers are more somewhat obvious. However, the more intriguing question and the one which we are more concerned with is: do royal weddings leave a more enduring legacy on the local tourism industry? The engagement announcement and the wedding date produce significant positive increases in the valuation of the home country’s tourism firms. Important managerial implications are derived in line with the long-term impact of unique events on tourism firms’ performance and the transference of brand knowledge from the destination to the companies is effective.

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Entrepreneurial leveraging in liminoidal olympic transit zones

Cited by 22 publications

References 21 publications

Strategic environmental leverage of a sport tourism event: Approaching the global challenge locally

Strategic environmental leverage of a sport tourism event: Approaching the global challenge locally

Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events

Will your majesty marry me? The effect of royal weddings on the tourism industry

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