Event — Workshop

Comparing Sports Policy, Sports Investment and Regional Development Initiatives in the hosting of Sports events

ASEF-EAAS Workshop 2005
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 10 – 12 March 2005
The University of Edinburgh
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Venue: The Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Sport and Leisure Studies, The Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Convenors:
• (Host) Dr. John D. Horne (Scottish Centre for P.E., Sport and Leisure Studies, The University of Edinburgh)
• Hirose Ichiro (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Tokyo)
• Dr. Wolfram Manzenreiter (University of Vienna)

Why do governments and cities compete for the right to host major international sporting events? What are the trade-offs and opportunity costs of doing so? And, do such events ultimately deliver the benefits, economic and otherwise, that their proponents proclaim?

The politics of hosting major international sports events is usually articulated in terms of sportive as well as economic and social benefits for the hosting nation. Yet research has pointed out significant gaps between forecast and actual outcomes, between economic and non-economic rewards, between mega-events in advanced and in developing societies. Given that Asia in particular has been largely ignored by scholars of sport events, this workshop aims to address this neglect and unresolved problems in a substantive way by bringing together a diverse group of outstanding scholars from various disciplinary fields to study comparatively the economic, political and cultural significance of bids for, and the hosting of, major sporting events.

Participants and paper titles

• Dr. Gerd Ahlert (Gesellschaft fur Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung GWS mbH, Osnabrueck, Germany) - What does Germany expect to gain from hosting the 2006 Football World Cup?

• Kathy Van den Bergh (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium) - Evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of sport promotional activities

• Prof. Chris Gratton (Sport Industry research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK) - Economic impact analysis of large-scale sport events. Cases from Britain

• Hirose Ichiro (RIETI and Waseda University, Japan) - Sport and City Planning: Experiences from Professional Football in Japan

• Dr. Wolfram Manzenreiter (Institute of East Asian Studies, Vienna University, Austria) - Winners and Losers in the 2002 Football World Cup

• Prof. Xin Xu (Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University/ Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan) - The 2008 Beijing Olympics and China’s International Relations

• Prof. Yi Jiandong (Centre for Olympic Studies, Beijing Sport University) - The 2008 Beijing Olympics and its Impact on Economic and Social Development in China

• Prof. Dr. Sombat Karnjanakit (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) - Sport Events and Infrastructure Planning in Newly Industrialised Economies

• Dr. John Horne (University of Edinburgh, UK): Comparing policies toward hosting sports mega-events - East Asian, European and North American experiences

• Dr. Nicholas Aplin (PESS, National Institute of Education, Singapore) - Towards a Sporting Singapore: Identity and Expediency

• Professor Mustafa Ishak (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia) - From the Commonwealth Games to the F1 Grand Prix: Exploring Malaysia’s initiatives and outcomes in the hosting of international sports events

• Prof. Maria Salomé Marivoet (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - UEFA Euro 2004 – a great opportunity to open Portugal to the world!

• Professor Francesco Muñoz Ramirez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) - Planning strategies and Olympic Urbanism: the case of post-Olympic Barcelona

 

Organisers: The Scottish Centre for Physical Education, Sport and Leisure Studies, The Moray House School of Education, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Sponsors: Asia-Europe Foundation, European Alliance for Asian Studies