Employment Effects of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah

2012 ◽  
Vol 232 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Baumann ◽  
Bryan Engelhardt ◽  
Victor A. Matheson
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The State ◽  
Local State ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Leisure Industry

SummaryLocal, state, and federal governments, along with the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee, spent roughly $1.9 billion in planning and hosting the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Event promoters suggested that the Games would increase employment in the state by 35,000 job-years. We investigate whether the 2002 Winter Olympics actually increased employment finding that the Games’ impact was a fraction of that claimed by the boosters.While the Salt Lake City Olympics did increase employment overall by between 4,000 and 7,000 jobs, these gains were concentrated in the leisure industry, and the Games had little to no effect on employment after 12 months.

Shadowed by the corpse of war: Sport spectacles and the spirit of terrorism

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Atkinson ◽  
Kevin Young
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Impact

Since the early 2000s, there has been a groundswell of research on terrorism and sports mega-events, including investigations into the impact of ‘9/11’ on fear and risk management strategies at high profile sports events. In this article, we re-examine the case of the Salt Lake City Winter Games of 2002 around Baudrillard’s (1995) concept of the ‘non-event’. We compare the (largely British and North American) mass mediation and discursive framing of terrorism at the 2002 Games with subsequent discourses interwoven into accounts of terrorism, fear and security at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens and the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. Of principal interest is the global framing of sports mega-events as targets of terrorism and the ways in which such events become fabricated zones of risk. To understand why there is a lingering media construction of the sports mega-event as an imagined target (and, in many ways, pre-constructed victim) of terrorism, we draw centrally on Baudrillard’s work (1995, 2001, 2002a, 2002b). Specifically, we employ Baudrillard’s concepts of the hyperreal and the non-event as a means of exploring terrorism’s relationship with sport, and the potential usage of such theoretical ideas in the sociology of sport and physical culture more broadly.

The epidemiology of illness and injury at the alpine venues during the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd L. Allen ◽  
Scott J. Jolley ◽  
Vernon J. Cooley ◽  
Robert T. Winn ◽  
Jeffery D. Harrison ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
Lake City

Turning 16 Days into 16 Years Through Olympic Legacies

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.R.B. Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Mega Event

The hosting of mega-events such as the Olympic Games provides a short period of intense excitement for residents and enhances the long-term awareness of the host destination in tourism markets. However, unless the event is carefully and strategically planned with destination and community development in mind, it can be difficult to justify the large investments required. This article focuses on two examples (the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, and the Salt Lake City 2002 Games) in an attempt to demonstrate how “legacy planning” can help ensure that the hosting of a short-term mega-event such as the Olympics can contribute to the development and consolidation of facilities and programs that will benefit destination residents for many years.

scholarly journals Safety and Security at Special Events: The Case of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott H Decker ◽  
Jack R Greene ◽  
Vince Webb ◽  
Jeff Rojek ◽  
Jack McDevitt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Lake City

The Endless Postlude

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Branding Strategy ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Missionary Work ◽  
International Public Relations ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Church

This chapter reflects on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's quest for spectacle throughout its existence. Since 1982, Jerold Ottley had asked the First Presidency for the Choir to have its own orchestra. Gordon Hinckley, now president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. favored Ottley's proposal. The result was the Orchestra at Temple Square, an in-house ensemble whose pretenses mirrored the Choir's huge accomplishments. This chapter first considers the Choir's use of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as part of its international public relations efforts before discussing its activities under Craig Jessop and later, Mack Wilberg. It also discusses the Choir's branding strategy and the Church's release of a new General Handbook in 2010. It concludes by underscoring the Tabernacle Choir's important role in Mormon missionary work.

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