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Peak event: the rise, crisis and potential decline of the Olympic Games and the World Cup
- Source :
- Tourism Management, vol. 95
- Publication Year :
- 2023
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2023.
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Abstract
- This paper tracks the growth of two of the largest tourist events: the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup, drawing on a dataset containing all events between 1964 and 2018. Overall, the size of the three events has grown about 60-fold over the past 50 years, thirteen times faster than world GDP. We identify an S-shaped growth curve and four different growth periods, with an emergent crisis phase in the late 2010s that may have brought us to ‘peak event’ – the point at which these events have reached their largest size. Outlining three different scenarios, we argue that the Olympics and the World Cup are at a critical bifurcation point, which also requires new bidding and hosting policies.
- Subjects :
- 10122 Institute of Geography
1409 Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Mega-events, Modernity., Growth, Host citie,s Olympic games, Football world cup
3303 Development
Strategy and Management
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Leisure and Hospitality Management
1408 Strategy and Management
Transportation
3313 Transportation
910 Geography & travel
Development
Tourism
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Details
- ISSN :
- 02615177
- Volume :
- 95
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Tourism Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0a902e9897b724936ef6b11febd57d99