Local development benefitts from staging global events / by Greg Clark

By:

Clark, Greg, 1962-

Contributor(s):

Local Economic and Employment Development

Publication details: [Paris] : OECD, cop. 2008Description: 180 pISBN:

9789264042063

Summary: The competition to stage major global events - such as Olympic Games, EXPOs, cultural festivals, and political summits - is more intense than ever before. Despite advances in virtual communication, large-scale gatherings of this kind have again become extraordinarily popular. In part, this can be explained by the worldwide media attention and sponsorship that such events now generate. But it is also substantially accounted for by the longer-term local benefits that can be achieved for the host location, including: improved infrastructure, increased revenues from tourism and trade, employment creation and heightened civic pride. However, such positive effects do not occur by accident, or without effective local action. Effective legacy planning and management is essential to ensure that the financial risk of investing in the event pays off, and that local development is boosted in a meaningful way. Put simply, when international events are hosted well, they become a catalyst for local development and global reach. This book identifies how international events work as a trigger for local development and what hosting cities and nations can do to ensure that positive local development is realised. It reviews experience from more than 30 cities and nations and it looks forward to future events yet to be hosted. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 03069	1	Available (Disponible)		1900147000

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Preface -- Executive summary -- Chap. 1. Introduction : making global events work locally -- Chap. 2. A framework for the local benefits of global events -- Chap. 3. Learning from experience : case studies on hosting events -- Chap. 4. Comparative analysis : do different types of global events yield distinctive benefits? -- Chap. 5. Making a habit of it : hosting more than one event? -- Chap. 6. Bidding to host a global event but not winning? -- Chap. 7. Leveraging local benefits for global events : conclusions and principles for success -- Tables -- Figures

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