Underestimated Costs and Overestimated Benefits? Comparing the Outcomes of Sports Mega-Events in Canada and Japan

By D. Whitson, J. Horne. 2006

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Quality of Life, Event Impacts, and Mega-Event Support among South African Residents before and after the 2010 FIFA World Cup (2013, background): “…provide the host city with opportunities to showcase tourist attractions and new infrastructure, which indirectly signals improved QOL (Chalip 2002; McGehee and Andereck 2004; Owen 2005; Solberg and Preuss 2007; Whitson and Horne 2006) and concurrently supports the importance of intangible impacts.”
Mega-events as a Response to Poverty Reduction: The 2010 FIFA World Cup and its Urban Development Implications (2008, background): “Nevertheless, the gap between actual and predicted impacts remains a key concern of academics and the source of a burgeoning literature (Horne and Manzenreiter 2004, 2006; Whitson and Horne 2006; Cornelissen 2004a).”
National well-being and international sports events (2010, background): “Moreover, while the construction phase may generate some employment, long term employment related to sport facilities is likely to be part-time, casual, low skilled, and low waged, thus not contributing in the improvement of the quality of full-time jobs (Baade, 1996; Hall, 2006; Whitson and Horne, ”
Measuring the social impacts associated with Super Bowl XLIII: Preliminary development of a psychic income scale (2012, background): “Whitson and Horne (2006) noted increased interest in hosting sport mega-events arguing that such events could attract a global audience, tourists, and external investors.”