Planning and management of major sporting events: a survey

Rabadi, Ghaith; Khallouli, Wael; Al-Salem, Mohammed; Ghoniem, Ahmed

doi:10.1504/ijps.2015.072122

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“…Within the literature on general tourism forecasting, a few studies pertain, specifically, to forecasting the number of foreign and domestic attendees for a mega-sports event. Rabadi et al (2015) point out that the influence of mega-events on inbound tourism is not straightforward to predict. A few studies have focused on assessing the impact of holding a mega-sports event in a nation on tourism (Fourie and Santana-Gallego, 2011).…”

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“…Lodging capacity management for the FIFA World Cup is novel and has not been studied in the academic literature despite the wealth of analytics studies in sports management (Wright, 2009;Rabadi et al, 2015). It is pertinent to situate this paper within the two relevant themes that it ties together, namely forecasting attendance at mega-sport events and analytics for scheduling sport events.…”

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Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning

Ghoniem

Ali

Al-Salem

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Journal of the Operational Research Society

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The FIFA World Cup, comprising sixty-four matches spanning an entire month, has, in recent years, been attended by about three million spectators of which over half a million are visitors requiring lodging. Planning lodging capacity for an event of this magnitude is necessary for host nations where pre-existing infrastructures are either inadequate or lacking. This paper develops an optimization analytics framework that sequentially employs two integer programming models for foreign spectator analysis and the consequent lodging requirements. The framework is applied to assess the preparedness of lodging infrastructure in Qatar for FIFA 2022.

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Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning

Ghoniem

Ali

Al-Salem

et al. 2017

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“…Cserháti and Szabó (2014) interviewed representatives from 71 sports associations and once more emphasized that "project management methods and techniques are essential in the definition and planning phases of an event" (p. 623). Finally, Rabadi et al (2015) highlighted how important being aware of the tools needed to monitor and manage the event is. However, to the best of our knowledge, no (empirical) study has yet elaborated on the PM methods actually used in SEs.…”

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Analyzing Project Management Methods in Organizing Sports Events

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the use and importance of project management (PM) methods in organizing sports events (SEs). Furthermore, the study analyzed differences in usage and importance of PM methods in relation to the type of SE. Finally, reasons for and obstacles to the implementation of PM methods in organizing SEs were identified. To assess the research questions, a quantitative survey ( n = 78) and a focus group discussion ( n = 5) were carried out. The results showed that PM methods were employed for SEs with higher usage and importance rates in large compared with small SEs. Requirements by event stakeholders, knowledge transfer, confidence building, progress control, and justification as well as opportunities to save money by introducing an improved planning process were identified as the main reasons for using PM in the organization of SEs. This study is the first work to provide an overview of the usage of specific PM methods in organizing SEs.

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“…Most of them are oriented to studying the scheduling of the national soccer tournaments in various countries, but some papers have studied other problems in different sports such as the scheduling of seeded players. Some surveys in this research line are Kendall et al (2010), (Wright, 2014), and Rabadi et al (2015). Also, several papers have studied essential aspects of elimination (also named knockout) tournaments; for example, Rosen et al (1986), Sunde (2003), Knyazev (2017), Gilsdorf andSukhatme (2008), andHuang (2016) have studied prize and incentives structures.…”

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An optimization model for the fair distribution of prize money in ATP tournaments

Govea

Pérez-Galarce

Candia-Véjar

2022

International Journal of Computer Science in Sport

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The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) distributes a considerable amount of money in prizes each year. Studies have shown that only the top 100 ranked players can self-finance; hence, it is convenient to introduce changes to the prize distribution to promote a more sustainable system. A Linear Programming model to distribute the tournament’s budget under a new concept for the fair distribution of prize money is proposed. Additionally, to distribute the prizes, a function based on the effort of the players is designed. The model was applied to tournaments to demonstrate the impact on improving the player’s prizes distribution.

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Planning and management of major sporting events: a survey

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning

Prescriptive analytics for FIFA World Cup lodging capacity planning

Analyzing Project Management Methods in Organizing Sports Events

An optimization model for the fair distribution of prize money in ATP tournaments

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