Abstract:
The Olympic games are one of the world most important activity from a sporting point of view because all of the most important players in the world will be there and will raise the prestige of the country but also from an economic point of view because to host such an event you attract new investments , business opportunities and the number of tourists will raise and that will boost the economy of a country for the long. Purpose of search: The aim of this paper is to show how the Olympic games can influence the economy. Key words: Olympic games, economic effect,costs.
JEL classification : L83,D6
Introduction:
The contribution of an Olympic game to a country economy is very significant , also it helps in developing the host city area by creating new job opportunities from the infrastructure level to the tourism .However this major sport events has it’s advantages it also has disadvantages like: building and maintaining the infrastructure, costs of hosting the event and overpopulation.
Critical analysis of the specialty literature:
Studies have showed that there is a period of three years where the GDP which is the principal factor to measure the health of a country’s economy, grows to a maximum level being represented by the year of the event then it starts to decrease. According to Huang (2011):“Most of hosted successfully Olympic Games all bring remarkable economic benefits to host country’s development of various industries. For example, p reparations for the Olympic Games brought Korea 7 billion dollars in production and 2.7 billion dollars in national income from year 1981 to 1988, the average annual economic growth rate reached 12.4%.”
The Term Paper on Olympic Games
Mega sports events like the Olympic or the commonwealth Games, the Football World Cup or the European Capital of Culture always have big and beautiful aims, like for the last one, according to the European Commission ‘highlight the diversity of cultural wealth in Europe and the ties that bind us as Europeans’ (toutel’europe. Eu, seen on the 4th january 2012). But nowadays, countries and cities bid ...
Tourism is also a very important branch from which you can increase the GDP and to develop the area in which the event is hold with the construction of the Olympic village, stadiums and already existing local attractions. But to have a continuous income the sport tourism it is still a need to invest and promote the sport industry. Plus there millions of people watching the event from home and might consider in the future visiting the country. Another plus for a country which host the event comes from the sports industry .According to Mingxiao (2005) :” Sports industry is one of the important material bases to sports economic development and socialprogress, has an important stimulat ing role on sports economy and even national economic growth, and is the emergence of modern human economy in the form of a new industrial economy “.
For the short run the country who organizes the games has for the beginning very high cost of investments and little revenues but they will be covered the cost and will make a profit in the long run period . In some particular cases they might never be recover the costs. The most expensive winter Olympics games were in Sochi, Russia in 2014 an it cost 50 billion dollars from which $6.4 billion was spent on sports related costs. Initially it should have cost only 12 billion but the place was chose poorly because Sochi has a humid subtropical climate being located near the Black Sea and they went over budget with the cost of maintaining the winter conditions.
Conclusion:
My opinion regarding the economic effect of the Olympic games is that the economic boost is very significant for the country and it can be see in the raise of the income from tourism industry and sports industry. It is also good because there are a lot of investments in infrastructure that will last for a long period of time, it creates new jobs for the people, and to host such an event has raised the prestige of a country and the GDP.
The Essay on History Of Olympic Games
The Olympic games are thegreatest sports event in the world. For many years, the Greeks used games for many reasons. The official ancient games were started in Greece. The first modern games in Athens, Greece, were held from April 6 through April 15 in the year of 1896. Since then, major world events plagued some of the Olympic games. There are a lot of examples of games being held in early ...
References
Andersen ,A.,1999.Economic impactstudy of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games ,Centre for Regional Economic Analysis ,University of Tasmania.
Baade ,R.,A. Matheson, V., 2002.Biddingfor the Olympics: fool’s gold ?,Transatlantic Sport: The Comparative Economics of North American and European Sports, London, Edward Elgar. Bingfeng,Y.,2010. Probe for development strategy of China’s sports economy. Sports Culture Guide. No.4, p. 65-68. Brunet, F., 1993 . Economy of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games , Lausanne, International Olympic Committee. Brunet, F., 1995.An economic
analysis of the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games:resources, financing and impact , The keys to success,Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Economics Research Associates, 1984. Community economic impact of the 9184 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and Southern California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. Guangxin,Z.,2008. Think about the development of China’s sports industry. Guangming Daily. Sept, 17. Humphreys,J.,M., Plummer , M.,K.,1995.The economic impact of the state of Georgia of hosting the 1996 Olympic Games ,Georgia , Seig Centre for Economic Growth.
Kim, J.G., S.W. Rhee, J.C. Yu, et al., 1989 .Impact of the Seoul Olympic Games on national development , Korea Development Institute
Hongye,G.,2006. Western Economics, Beijing ,China Renmin University Press. Huang,L.,2011. Article title: Research on Effect of Beijing Post-Olympic Sports Industry to China’s Economic Development , Energy procedia vol. 5,p. 2097–2102. Li,W., Wei,W.,2008. Analysis of Market Behavior and Performance of Sport Goods Industry in China under Industrial Organization Theory . Journal of Tianjin University of Sport, 23 (6) , pp. 469–471. Liqun ,Z.,2008. The Olympic Games held by the big country influences little on the economic entity. Southern Metropolis Daily Mark., Jul, 28,, GC03 edition. Mingxiao ,B., 2005. Basic theoretical issues of the sports industry Sports Scientific Research., 26 (4) ,pp. 22–29. Papanikos, G.,T.,1999. The tourism impact of the 2004 Olympic Games, Athens, Tourism Research Institute study series 5
The Essay on Trade Fairs and exhibitions and their economic impact on companies and countries
marketing event. They are organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products, service, study activities of rivals and examine recent market trends and opportunities. In contrast to consumer fairs, only some trade fairs are open to the public, while others can only be attended by company representatives (members of the trade, e.g. professionals) ...
Preuss, H., 2004. The economics of staging the Olympics: a comparison of the Games 1972-2008,London, Edward Elgar.
