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Building Sports Tourism and Event Portfolios – Key Success Factors in Middle East Sports Tourism : A Case Study
Alrawadieh, Ziad - 2014
in the sports tourism economy is the requirement for professional personnel to manage, market and sell sport. The Middle …Sports tourism is a tool for economic development. Even a lack of resources does not eliminate opportunities for … participation in sports tourism. Sports tourism can be a catalyst for economic development. Individually, each of the various …
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Sustainable marketing activities, event image, perceived value and tourists’ behavioral intentions in the sports tourism
Wang, Junfeng; Butkouskaya, Vera - In: Journal of economics, finance & administrative science 28 (2023) 55, pp. 60-78
, commemorative product perceived value and tourists' behavioral intentions (TBIs) in the sports tourism context of the Beijing Winter … market by structural equation modeling. Findings - The results indicate that SMAs positively impact sports tourism event … strategies. Originality/value - It is pioneering work with a complex research framework for SMAs implementation in the sports …
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How big is home advantage at the Olympic Games?
Singleton, Carl; Reade, James; Rewilak, Johan; … - 2021
We revisit the magnitude of home advantage at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, looking back all the way to Athens in 1896. By comparing a host country’s success with their performances in previous and subsequent games, we find that home advantage has declined over time as participation and...
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Environmental impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Huijuan, Cao; Fujii, Hidemichi; Managi, Shunsuke - 2013
Beijing organized the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and the main goal of the Chinese government regarding this event was to hold a "Green Olympics". A difference-in-differences approach was used to estimate the environmental impact the Olympic Games on air quality improvement in Beijing, compared...
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Sports heroes and mass sports participation : the (double) paradox of the "German tennis boom"
Feddersen, Arne; Jacobsen, Sven; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
participation in that sport. This study is the first to analyse the impact of sports heroes on the membership figures of the … corresponding sports association by means of an econometric analysis. We do so by evaluating the so-called "Boris Becker effect" by … ascendency of the sport stars. With the first paradox, their retirement should then have a positive effect. In this sense, our …
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How to win the Olympic Games : the empirics of key success factors of olympic bids
Feddersen, Arne (contributor); Maennig, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the probability of the success of city bid campaigns on the basis of quantified determinants for a total of 48 bids for the Summer Olympic Games between 1992 and 2012. Using a model comprising the distance of sporting venues from the Olympic Village, local temperatures and...
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Which countries bid for the Olympic Games? : economic, political, and social factors and chances of winning
Maennig, Wolfgang; Vierhaus, Christopher - 2016 - Version: February 2016
bid decision is shaped by experience in hosting major sports events, a country and regional rotation, persistence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452732
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The host with the most? : the effects of the Olympic Games on happiness
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom...
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The host with the most? : the effects of the Olympic Games on happiness
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530303
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Determinants of the expenditure done by attendees at a sporting event : the case of World Padel Tour
Jiménez-Naranjo, Héctor V.; Coca Pérez, José Luís; … - In: European journal of management and business economics : … 25 (2016) 3, pp. 133-141
The influx of people attending sport events involves creating wealth in the environment where they are held. To … done by attendees at a sport event. Therefore, the objective of our research is to present a model to evaluate the … related to the perceptions of those attending a sport event. The research has been based on the use of Structural Equation …
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