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Watching the Web: The Impact of Mega Sporting Events on Development, Tourism and Housing: Selected Online and Print Research Resources Gretchen Ghent |
Books and Reports Burbank, Matthew Olympic Dreams: The impact of mega-events on local politics Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2001, 203p. (Available Google Books, http://books.google.com) Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation Impact of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games on the Vancouver and Sea-to-Sky housing markets, Research Highlight, Socio-economic series, 06-022, November 2006. Available in PDF format at: http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/Collection/NH18-23-106-022E.pdf Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) Fair play for housing rights: Mega-events, Olympic Games and housing rights Geneva, COHRE, 2007, 228p. Available in PDF format: http://www.ruig-gian.org/ressources/Report%20Fair%20Play%20FINAL%20FINAL%20070531.pdf Gold, John Robert & Gold, Margaret M. Olympic cities: City agendas, planning and the world‘s games, 1896-2012 London/New York; Routledge, 2007, 348 p. Lenskyj, Helen. The Best Olympics Ever?: Social impacts of Sydney 2000. State University of New York Press, 2002, 256p. (SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) Roche, Maurice, Mega-events and modernity: Olympics, expos and the growth of global culture. London: Routledge, 2000, 281 pages. (Available Google Books, http://books.google.com) Articles, Book Chapters/Essays and Online Resources Andranovich, Greg; Burbank, Matthew J. & Heying, Charles H. Olympic Cities: Lessons learned from mega-event politics, Journal of Urban Affairs, v23, no2, 2001, pp. 113-131. Baade, Robert A, The economic impact of mega sporting events, In, Handbook on the Economics of Sport, by Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szymanski Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, pp 177 – 182. (Available Google Books, http://books.google.com) Baade, Robert., Baumann, Robert & Matheson, Victor Selling the big game: Estimating the economic impact of mega-events through taxable sales, International Association of Sports Economists, Working Papers series, no. 0610 26p. June 2006. Available online at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/spe/wpaper/0610.html Fayos-Solá, Eduardo: The impact of mega events Annals of Tourism Research, v25, no1, Jan 1998, pp. 241-245. Lee, Choong-Ki; Taylor, Tracy; Lee, Yong-Ki; Lee, Bongkoo Impact of sport mega-event on destination image: The case of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, v6, no3, 29 Nov 2005, pp. 27-45. Hua, Ye. City planning and mega events as social experiments impact on urban planning of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo City Planning Review, No. 254, 2005, pp. 35-38 (Note: Is published in the Japanese language, available through Science Links Japan at: http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200512/000020051205A0435282.php Humphreys, Brad R & Prokopowicz, Szymon Assessing the impact of sports mega-events in transition economies: EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing, v2, no. 5/6, 2007, pp. 496-509. Jones, Calvin. Mega-events and host-region impacts: Determining the true worth of the 1999 Rugby World Cup, International Journal of Tourism Research. V3, no 3, May/Jun 2001, pp. 241 – 251. Kan, Yon-Soon & Perdue, Richard, Long-term impact of a mega-event on international tourism to the host country: A conceptual model and the case of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, pp. 205-226. in, Global Tourist Behavior by Muzaffer Uysal, Haworth Press, 1994. (Available Google Books, http://books.google.com) Maennig, Wolfgang & du Plessis, Stan. World Cup 2010: South African Economic Perspectives and Policy Challenges Informed by the Experience of Germany 2006. Contemporary Economic Policy v25, no4, Oct 2007; pp. 578 – 591. Matheson, Victor A. & Baade, Robert A. Mega-sporting events in developing nations: Playing the way to prosperity South African Journal of Economics / Suid Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Ekonomie, v72, no5 Dec, 2004 pp. 1085 – 1096. Matheson, Victor. The economics of staging the Olympics: A comparison of the Games 1972-2008 International Journal of Sport Finance, v3, no1, Feb 2008; pp. 74- 76. Owen, Jeffrey G. Estimating the cost and benefit of hosting Olympic Games: What can Beijing expect from its 2008 Games? The Industrial Geographer, v3, no1, Fall 2005. pp. 1 – 19. (Freely available online at: http://igeographer.lib.indstate.edu/ Ritchie, J.R. Brent & Smith, Brian H. The impact of a mega-event on host region awareness: A longitudinal study Journal of Travel Research, v. 30, no. 1, 1991, pp. 3-10. Siegfried, John J. & Zimbalist, Andrew. The economic impact of sports facilities, teams and mega-events, Australian Economic Review, v39, no. 4, 2006, pp. 420-427. Zhang, Amy, Lessons of Olympic proportions, e.Peak features: Simon Fraser’s independent student newspaper, 2, vol 115, September 8, 2003. Available online at: http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2003-3/issue2/fe-olympics.html Contact Gretchen Ghent, Librarian Emeritus President, International Association for Sport Information, Chair, North American Sport Library Network University of Calgary Library Calgary, Alberta, Canada Email: gghent@ucalgary.ca http://www.icsspe.org/portal/index.php?w=1&z=5 Watching the Web: The Impact of Mega Sporting Events on Development, Tourism and Housing: Selected Online and Print Research Resources Gretchen Ghent