Optimization of International Sport Event Tournament Schedules: A Managerial View on The Scheduling Fairness of The World Baseball Softball Confederation Premier 12 Tournament

Athletes as tourists: Consumer Behaviour of Participants at the 2007 and 2009 World Universiade GamesConsiderable research has been devoted to sport mega-events including the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, and the Commonwealth Games. Yet few studies have focused on the lesser known or "second tier" international sport events in order to understand the patterns and the impact of participant consumption. Further, few sport event studies are extended beyond a single assessment. This study examines a recurring sport event, the World Universiade Summer Games, that took place in two different countries, Belgrade, Serbia and Bangkok, Thailand. A profile of participants at the 2007 and 2009 Universiades was generated to reveal and compare their consumer behaviour in the host cities and over time. Subjects were queried on-site during selected days of competition (N=441, 2007; N=221, 2009). Findings demonstrate a remarkable consistency in participant characteristics and local spend from 2007 to 2009, though the amount spent per night was considerably less than the average per night spend by other types of tourists in the host countries, suggesting that Universiade athletes are non high-value tourists. Discussion and implications of findings to sport and tourism destination scholars and marketers are presented.

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Perception of public managers on the sustainability of sports mega-events: the case of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil

Interações (Campo Grande) ◽

10.20435/inter.v21i2.2103 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

César Ricardo Maia de Vasconcelos ◽

Fernando Cabral de Macedo Filho

Keyword(s):

World Cup ◽

Sport Event ◽

The Public ◽

Descriptive Research ◽

Public Managers ◽

The World ◽

Qualitative Descriptive ◽

Sport Events ◽

The City

The realization of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil generated meaningful transformations in the host cities. These transformations brought concerns over the sustainability of a mega-sport event. The present study tried to understand the sustainability resulting from the World Cup in the city of Natal, Brazil, from the perspective of local public managers. This qualitative, descriptive research, whose data were inductively analyzed, used a semi-open interview composed of 24 semi-structured questions in order to obtain information from the public managers at local and state levels and who are linked to the event. As a result, the managers involved concluded that the 2014 World Cup in Natal did not serve sustainability neither leave any sustainable effects. It was also observed that the lack of sustainability was due to the lack of adequate planning and technical projects, as well as to the lack of organization and social participation in the preparation and follow-up of the works and actions necessary for its accomplishment. Among the propositions of new works, there is the recommendation to analyze how the public managers and the normative regulations are dealing with sustainability in the planning and in the projects for the realization of two other mega-sport events, the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia and the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

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Ex Ante and Ex Post Willingness to Pay for Hosting a Large International Sport Event

Journal of Sports Economics ◽

10.1177/1527002518771445 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 159-176 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Willem I. J. de Boer ◽

Ruud H. Koning ◽

Jochen O. Mierau

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Willingness To Pay ◽

Contingent Valuation ◽

Contingent Valuation Method ◽

Sport Event ◽

Valuation Method ◽

Ex Post ◽

Ex Ante ◽

The Media ◽

International Sport

Using the contingent valuation method, we estimate residents’ ex ante and ex post willingness to pay (WTP) for hosting a large international sport event: The “big start” of the 2016 Giro d’Italia, which was held in the Gelderland region of the Netherlands. The percentage of residents with a positive WTP changed from 29.7% before the event to 39.3% immediately after the event, while average WTP increased significantly from €3.58 to €4.45, leading to an increase of residents’ valuation from €5.8 million to €7.1 million. Additionally, following the event in the media and attending the event play an important role in explaining residents’ WTP.

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Corruption in Sport

Middle East Law and Governance ◽

10.1163/18763375-00602003 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 123-140 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Nadim Nassif

Keyword(s):

Public Sector ◽

Political System ◽

Religious Groups ◽

Financing System ◽

Sport Event ◽

The Public ◽

Sport Policy ◽

The Government ◽

International Sport ◽

Political Scene

Corruption in sport may have different forms: bribes to International Olympic Committee officials, gambling scandals in football games, doping… But these scourges are not only related to bribery in winning a bid to organize an international sport event or to an athlete cheating, they are also very present in the policy of the government in this field. In fact, the economic, social and political growth of sport in the end of the 20th century has put this sector on the national agendas. Today, sport policy is subject to a structure mechanism and a financing system defined and implemented by the government. Therefore, if a country has a public sector tainted with corruption, it is very likely to affect the whole government apparatus, including the sport sector. When it comes to the public sector, corruption is mainly found in the bribery of officials, kickbacks in procurement and embezzlement of funds. This article examines corruption in the Lebanese sport system. It argues that the latter is highly influenced by the state’s multiconfessional political system. This system, which is officially based on a communitarian balance that is difficult to reach, is transformed in reality into a struggle for overrepresentation, even in the field of sport. As the main goal for the different religious groups is to lead the political scene, this often implies corruptive and nepotistic behavior.

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Oh, Sport! Are You Peace? (About Different Kinds of Sports Media Discourse)

Respectus Philologicus ◽

10.15388/respectus.2015.27.32.5 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 27 (32) ◽

pp. 52-63

Author(s):

Jelena Kazimianec

Keyword(s):

Subject Matter ◽

Modern World ◽

Media Discourse ◽

Sport Event ◽

Sports Media ◽

Additional Information ◽

Sports Events ◽

The World ◽

Meaningful Event

The ways of description and interpretation of such socially meaningful event as the World Football Championship 2014 are considered in this article. The author justifies the importance of choosing a sports topic and in particular football in the modern world, showing that first of all the sports discourse is a journalistic discourse. That is why the ways of the representation and description of sports events are the basic means for creating its concept. The author has chosen one day of the World Football Championship 2014 for theanalysis to show that not the sports events, but the acts of violence accompanying them are becoming the basic subject matter of the description. In relation to this, the author suggests to speak about a special type of sports discourse: a discourse of sports aggression. Its main features are: special lexical stock phrases, inaccuracy in the supply of information, lack of logic in the description of events, and expressiveness of the means used to describe the acts of violence. The author comes to the conclusion that it is difficult to make the precise cognitive diagram of the sport event reading due to the additional information, as the reader’s attention in such messages is focused only on the description of the details, which are connected with the facts of aggression that occurred in the sport action. The modern sports appear as the catalyst of aggressive actions instead of initiating the peace.

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Splitting the World of International Sport: The 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces and the Politics of Challenging the Global Sport Order

Sport, Protest and Globalisation ◽

10.1057/978-1-137-46492-7_5 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 77-99

Author(s):

Russell Field

Keyword(s):

The World ◽

International Sport

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The influence of hosting an international sport event on the young generation: the case of Qatar

International Sports Studies ◽

10.30819/iss.40-2.03 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 19-33

Author(s):

Wadih Ishac ◽

Claude Sobry ◽

Patrick Bouchet XXXMLAUTOR Sorina Cernaianu

Keyword(s):

Young Generation ◽

Sport Event ◽

International Sport

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Sport sponsorship alliances: relationship management for shared value

Sport Business and Management An International Journal ◽

10.1108/sbm-12-2013-0044 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 270-283 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Ashlee Morgan ◽

Daryl Adair ◽

Tracy Taylor ◽

Antoine Hermens

Keyword(s):

Single Case ◽

Corporate Sponsorship ◽

Informal Governance ◽

Sport Event ◽

Sport Sponsorship ◽

Content Type ◽

Partner Satisfaction ◽

International Sport ◽

Business To Business

Purpose – Using a case study of an international sport event, the purpose of this paper is to examine the inter-organisational relationship between a sport event property and its corporate sponsors. Design/methodology/approach – Interviews were conducted with personnel from the national sport organisation responsible for the delivery of this major event, and from four of its corporate sponsorship partners. Findings – The findings indicated that both formal and informal governance were critical to the relationships underpinning these sponsorship alliances. From a dyadic perspective, it was found that the satisfaction of sponsorship partners had two key elements: tangible commercial benefits from the sponsor-sponsee alliance, and the less tangible but nonetheless valuable relationship support within the partnership. In short, partner satisfaction and alliance stability stemmed from relational constructs and the balance of formal governance mechanisms. Originality/value – This paper explores the variables that generate value and maintain alliance stability for improved sponsorship governance. These findings, while focused on a single case study, have implications for research in the field of sponsorship and to the area of business-to-business relationships more broadly.

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