Event Leveraging in a Nonhost Region: Challenges and Opportunities

Chen, Shushu; Misener, Laura

doi:10.1123/jsm.2018-0210

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“…As no single organisation had the capacity required to solely leverage team events, collaboration would be key to effectively leveraging the team event opportunities. Our findings are consistent with research identifying broader political decisions and priorities as constraints to leveraging (Bell & Gallimore, 2015;Chalip et al, 2017;Chen & Misener, 2019;Kennelly et al, 2017). However, our results suggest that political structures that may not affect leveraging directly, such as a Destination Management Organisation (DMO), can nevertheless constrain leveraging.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Lack of collaboration has been identified as a constraint to leveraging in numerous studies (e.g., Chen & Misener, 2019;Kennelly et al, 2017;Mhanna, Blake, & Jones, 2017;Taks et al, 2018). For example, lack of collaborative planning and a failure to look beyond short-term outcomes constrained achieving leveraging benefits in the context of Sydney 2000…”

Section: Collaborationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Collaborationmentioning

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Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events

Sobral

Fairley

O’Brien

2021

Sport Management Review

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“…Legacy always features very strongly in bid documentation and in event advocacy discourse¸ as in the case under study. However, it is proving difficult to translate legacy aspirations into tangible realities (Chen and Misener 2019). Smith (2012: 127) has even argued that event legacy is 'best understood as a discursive device that is used to justify event projects'.…”

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Building social capital in a divided city: the potential of events

Devine

Quinn

2019

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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It is widely held that social capital can help build sustainable communities (Cuthill 2010), yet researchers agree that further research is needed to fully understand the social dimensions of sustainable development (Getz 2009). In event settings, understanding how social capital is formed remains limited (Wilks 2011). This paper addresses this issue by examining the extent to which the UK City of Culture 2013 (CoC13) succeeded in building social capital in post-conflict Derry/Londonderry. The authors adopted a case study approach and mixed qualitative methods in the form of in-depth interviews and focus groups. The findings suggest that CoC13 helped to generate both bonding and bridging social capital, however, while intra community bonds were strengthened, exclusivity was also fostered. More positive were the examples of bridging capital cultivated across communities, particularly between young attendees, and between event organisers, with cooperation building trust and goodwill between volunteers. Some of the cross community relationships developed have been sustained. However, the lack of legacy planning has meant that the long-term social goals have not been met. In summary, the study suggests that in a post conflict society, events can help build social capital. However, in the absence of legacy planning, the benefits gained may soon evaporate.

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“…The Olympic Games is a global sporting event, and its impact extends beyond the region in which it is held. Non-host regions can include both non-host cities in the host country and non-host countries [15,[61][62][63]. A survey of community perceptions found that the 2002 Winter Olympics did not have much impact on non-host communities, but there was a willingness among residents to support community activity participation [64].…”

Section: The Impact Of the Olympic Games On Sport Participation In No...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Given the positive perception of the Olympics by residents and sports organisations in non-host city communities, there is a need to consider how these positive perceptions can be transformed into actual increases in sport participation. Some studies have examined the activity leverage of non-host city communities in the transformation of Olympic impact, proposing that governments and stakeholders in non-host cities should build early leadership and strategic alliances prior to the Olympics to promote residents' interest in sports and increase local sports activities, thereby effectively activating the activity leverage [37,63]. In addition, research on the impact of the Olympic Games in non-host countries is much less common than that on the impact of the Games in non-host cities in host countries.…”

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Sustainable Development of Olympic Sport Participation Legacy: A Scoping Review Based on the PAGER Framework

Shi

Bairner

2022

Sustainability

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After the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese officials claimed that the goal of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports” had been achieved. Historically, the London 2012 Olympic Games had a similar goal: to increase sports participation for all by hosting the Olympic Games. Given these goals, the impact of the Olympic Games on sports participation has clearly become significant. These impacts can be referred to as the Olympic sport participation legacy, an intangible Olympic legacy. The Olympic sport participation legacy has attracted a lot of researchers’ interest in the academic field in recent years. This paper aims to conduct a scoping review of Olympic sport participation legacy studies between 2000 and 2021 to identify the progress of studies on the sustainability of Olympic sport participation legacies. Unlike previous scoping reviews on sport participation legacies, this review adopts a Patterns, Advances, Gaps, Evidence of Practice, and Research Recommendations (PAGER) framework at the results analysis stage to improve the quality of the findings. The results from the scoping review contained 54 peer-reviewed articles on three levels of research: the population level, social level, and intervention processes. Many studies indicate that achieving a sustainable Olympic sport participation legacy requires joint collaboration and long-term planning between governments, community organisations, and other stakeholders.

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Event Leveraging in a Nonhost Region: Challenges and Opportunities

Cited by 15 publications

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Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events

Constraints to leveraging regular season sport team events

Building social capital in a divided city: the potential of events

Sustainable Development of Olympic Sport Participation Legacy: A Scoping Review Based on the PAGER Framework

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