Residents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games: Before, During and After the Mega-Event

Abstract


 
 
 
 This study investigates the residents’ perceptions of Rio de Janeiro regarding the impacts of Rio 2016 Olympic Games. For the first time, a country in South America was chosen to host this megaevent, being a great opportunity to track residents’ perception and cover a gap in longitudinal studies involving residents in developing countries and its impacts on the host city. A face-to-face quantitative survey was conducted over three years, with a total of 1,211 interviewees in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The population perceived positively mainly an improvement in urban mobility and an increase in tourism; but, negatively, the misuse of public resources, increase in prices, and non-lasting legacies that critically affected the image of the destination post-Olympics.
 
 
 

Clarifying megaproject complexity in developing countries: A literature review and conceptual study

“…80 Much of the extant literature employed qualitative analysis (65%), using case study and descriptive narrative approaches. Only 19% of the studies used quantitative methods, such as correlation analysis, 81 confirmatory factor analysis, 82 analysis of variance, 83 and structural equation modeling. 84 Two studies used a mixed-methods approach (i.e., a combination of qualitative and quantitative).…”

“…Some studies 36,82,102 have posited that megaproject complexity could originate from issues with ambiguous legal systems and partnership agreements, limited shareholder commitments, and a lack of transparency in the tender process. Cultural aspects were also referenced in explaining megaproject complexity involving multiple nations, 83,141,142 wherein cultural and linguistic differences seemed to complicate the management and coordination of activities. Other studies highlighted the difficulties of a cultural gap between the project team and the local community, 100,105,148 which could potentially lead to crises and social rejection.…”

Relações entre cidadão e cidade

“…Por último, as interpretações perceptuais dos cidadãos na categoria socioeconômica são restritas a efeitos de intervenções de renovação urbanística, em especial aqueles vinculados a dimensões de gentrificação -um artigo sobre o México (Delgadillo, 2016). Igualmente, são debatidos tópicos pertinentes ao turismo urbano -um sobre a Colômbia (López-Zapata; Sepúlveda; Gómez-Gómez, 2018), e outro sobre o Brasil (Zouain et al, 2019).…”

“…Recente centro de grandes eventos esportivos, a cidade do Rio de Janeiro, estado homônimo, Brasil, é experimentada por Zouain et al (2019) pela análise da população local acerca dos impactos dos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016. Com um total de 1.211 entrevistados ao longo de três anos, os respondentes apontam melhorias na mobilidade urbana e no desenvolvimento do turismo.…”

Does the Olympic legacy perceived in the host city influence the resident support after the games?

“…Previous studies have shown that the Rio Olympic bid promised accessibility and equity on transportation systems as a legacy for the host city (Pereira 2018), but it has not happened. As noted by Zouain et al (2019), the Rio Olympics built a negative opinion towards the misuse of public resources, increase in prices, and non-lasting legacies, while Rocha (2020) highlighted the progressively decrease in resident perceptions of Olympic legacies from 2012 to 2018. On the other hand, previous studies have also found significant relationships between positive impacts and support intentions (Ouyang et al 2017).…”