After researching the impacts events have on regional development I have come to agree with the statement ‘The events industry is an effective and appropriate vehicle for facilitation of regional development’. The significance of this thesis is to critically discuss and demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the events industry and regional development while also providing an understanding of the history of events and the increasing significance of the event industry in contemporary society. Real life examples from around the world are used to recognize and justify the event industry as part of the tourism sector and explore specific implications to event management. Various sectors of the events industry are identified and discussed to support the theoretical discussion on how the events industry is an effective and appropriate vehicle for facilitation of regional development.
Global events benefit regional, tourism and community development. Take for instance the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics. They both are events held globally that increase visitor’s expenditure and length of stay while improving destination awareness and increasing civic pride. Janecko, Mules and Ritchie (2002) explain events in small regional destinations are obviously beneficial and often play an important role in tourism development and thereby in regional development however, differ due to size and scale of the event. Global events create employment and increase labour supply, expenditures and even the standard of living. ‘As local economics have adapted to changing to global dynamics, the hosting of international events has become more commonplace and can play a significant role in local development, acting as a catalysts for jo...
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In the year of 2012, there were almost fifteen million overnight tourist trips taken in Scotland, which resulted in £4.3 billion in visitor expenditure. This shows that tourism really helps the Scottish economy as over one hundred and forty million tourist day trips w...
Tourism impacts can be generally classified into seven categories with each having both positive and negative impacts. These impacts include; economic, environmental, social and cultural, crowding and congestion, taxes, and community attitude. It is essential for a balance on array of impacts that may either positively or negatively affect the resident communities. Different groups are concerned about different tourism impacts that affect them in one way or another. Tourism’s benefits can be increased by use of specific plans and actions. These can also lead to decrease in the gravity of negative impacts. Communities will not experience every impact but instead this will depend on particular natural resources, development, or spatial patterns (Glen 1999).
This report is aim to describe and analysis an event that held in NSW, named Country Music Festival Tamworth (TCMF). The TCMF is the Australia’s largest music festival and rated in the top ten coolest festivals (Destination NSW 2016). In this report, it will outline and analysis the planning intentions of the TCMF in regard to the goals, objectives, program, relationship between community and stakeholders, governance and event impacts.
The Pan American Games (also referred to as the Pan Am Games) are the world's third largest international multi-sport games which take place every four years. These competitions constitute a major event in America however, Canada, Ontario will be proudly hosting the next edition in the upcoming year of 2015 within the following cities of; Toronto, Mississauga, Hamilton, and Niagara (Toronto 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games, 2014). Holding a major multi-sport event requires a great deal of preparation and responsibility as the nation will be accountable for the performers, officials, and spectators. The abstract of this essay is to demonstrate how the Pan American Games will not only benefit the diversity and reputation of the city of Toronto, but as well present its offering to tourism.
Tourism and Events Queensland focuses on targeted visitors from interstate, intrastate and international markets. Domestic tourism currently accounts for three-quarters of overnight visitor expenditure in Queensland and should continue to generate over two-thirds of expenditure by 2020. Share of expenditure from key inbound markets to 2020 is expected to grow, particularly from Asia. Tourism and Events Queensland’s tourism and event activities are developed to protect and maintain the current visitor markets as well as to attract and promote growth from new markets. (TQ annual report 2011
With over two hundred countries participating, the Olympic Games is easily considered as one of the largest multisport event known to history. The Olympics are held at a different country, and even more rarely at the same city. For a country to be chosen to host the Olympics, the country’s National Olympic Committee (the country’s representatives for the Olympics) nominates a city (from the country they represent) that they think has potential in hosting the Olympics nine years prior to when they wish to host the Olympics. It is a two year process that consists of: Application Phase, Candidate Phase and the Election of the Host City. The country that wins the election is given seven years to prepare for the Olympics. (International Olympic Committee, n.d., p. xx-xx) The hosting country expends billions of dollars, usually money they don’t have, preparing for the Olympics. Then the question is raised 'why would a country go through so much trouble and spend an outrageous amount of money to host this event?' Throughout this discussion paper it will address all the pros and cons for a country to host the Olympics. It will also see if a smaller sports event can produce the same benefits the Olympic offers with less cost and risk.
Festival 2018 is a great example of what tourism on the Gold Coast looks like, a two week cultural and arts celebration during the Games period for all ages, keeping the locals and visitors entertained on the beach when they aren’t watching the events, and the permanent Evandale cultural precinct, which will be a lasting legacy for future cultural events. Despite this positive tourism opportunity for visitors, it must be considered that this event legacy can leave a negative impression on the local people (Griffith University, 2018). Potential issues include focussing too heavily on the commercial success of the event and neglecting local business and resident needs or ignoring sustainability in their activities that affects the quality of life for local people (Fredline, 2005). Luckily, sustainability is a very important feature to GOLDOC, the organisation leading the Commonwealth Games, and have promised to deliver international standards of best practice to leave a ‘community legacy that lasts beyond the Closing Ceremony’ (GOLDOC,
Some think that the population increases during the Olympics but the tourist only replace those who already live in the hosting area. Most of the positive developmental functions that could be associated with the Olympics, could also occur absent the Olympics(Text
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The local culture and customs might attract the businessmen who are attending a conference in the city and give them a favorable experience, and then they are likely to establish their business operations there in the future. Thus business tourism can stimulate future investments for the destination.
Compete in today’s global world makes the countries in any other parts of the world will compete to defend presence acknowledgement by the world. The development of all aspects of life makes the state in any hemisphere shows of wealth as well as his true identity as a country. A country’s resource wealth into the shield from the impact of the progress of the world, but it also can we take advantage to make our country as the world promotion. The development of the world culture as icons make important to maintain themselves in the middle of the era of competition, culture is a symbol of system and meaning in a human society which contained the norms and values of social relationship and behavior become the true identity of a country. Cultural wealth makes a humor behavior patterns are increasingly diverse, the attitude of cooperation in building a nation. the nature how a country’s or community’s view on it is an important aspect, which we refer to as the hospitality properties. The attitude of showing how the country educating people inside. The wealth cultures make a country home to place tourism as other important aspects to compete in today’s global world.
Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-events on Local Politics by Matthew J. Burbank, investigates local politics surrounding Mega-events and their impact on politics on American cities particularly three U.S. cities - Los Angeles (1984), Atlanta (1996), and Salt Lake City (2002). The first three chapters the author focuses on Mega-events in general and their benefit to cities and the influence of politics and economic growth behind it all. Then the authors breaks it down into three case studies and investigate in-depth each Olympics that took place in the following US cities. One of the big questions is, what drives cities to large scale events such as the Olympics and what are the benefits. Considering the influence of politics, economics and image and there connection to urban politics as a whole. The authors also explain the importance of the coalition of public and private elites, and how the opinions of citizens are over shadowed profoundly known as “Urban Regime”. Looking beyond the benefits and losses it also looks at how it affect local governance and social conditions in the particular city.
This essay is the respond to the Local Council Member who has wrong idea about a common archetype of adventure tourist. This misconception based on ignorance of current tourism industry, could potentially be a dangerous for local economy and development. The local authority must be well informed about present conditions with the tourism market, before they will make a far reaching decisions about the development direction in this industry. Currently, there are many organisations whose monitoring an international tourism business and this knowledge supposed to be good use for our common good.
According to the ‘World Tourism Organization’ (UNWTO), the tourism industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in the world, as it is estimated that by the year 2020, 7.8 billion people (roughly a quarter of the world’s population) will embark on a foreign trip (Bennett & Gebhardt 15). The Caribbean is said to be the most economically dependent on this industry, as the ‘Caribbean Tourism Organisation’ states that the industry forms the “economic backbone of most countries in the Region”(“Caribbean Tourism Industry” 1), implications for what tourism’s affect on the region have arisen and have prompted further research into matter. Since the 1970’s research regarding tourism in the Caribbean has attempted to determine the social, cultural, environmental, and economic impacts of tourism. Much of the research has found that there are in fact many negative adverse affects, and Jackson’s article asserts that, “Governments often commit money and other resources to support the growth and development of tourism and often turn a blind eye to its negative impacts” (574). The reason why tourism looks attractive (and thus turn a blind eye) to these Caribbean countries is because of “its potential to foster GDP growth, to create employment, to increase foreign exchange earnings, and attract capital investment” (Daye, Chambers, and Roberts 2). This paper will overview such impacts by first discussing a case study conducted in Jamaican resort town, Ocho Rios, with Sheere Brooks discussing the observed social, cultural and economical consequences of Jamaica’s reliance on the tourism industry and will finally look at tourism in relation to capitalism, with Robert Fletcher suggesting in his article that the tourism industry (and more specifically...