{"id":756,"date":"2012-10-09T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T10:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=756"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:05:25","slug":"bournemouth-research-chronicle-london-2012-the-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2012\/10\/09\/bournemouth-research-chronicle-london-2012-the-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth Research Chronicle: London 2012: the legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

Following on from yesterday\u2019s research chronicle blog, today we are posting Richard Shipways\u2019 article.<\/p>\n

Richard is holding a free conference on the London 2012 Legacy on Friday 9th<\/sup> November at the EBC, Bournemouth. The conference, called \u201cGoing for Gold: Leveraging Post Olympic Tourism Legacies<\/em>\u201d, is open to anyone and has some fantastic Key Note Speakers.<\/p>\n

Visit Britian, Visit England and Visit Manchester will all be present at the conference as well as academics from the sport industry. Free refreshments will be provided. If you are interested in attending please contact Dr Rebecca Edwards on redwards@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a> or 01202 961206:<\/p>\n

During the Olympic and Paralympic Games the eyes of the world were fixed firmly on the UK. The question is how does a country continue to reap the benefits after such an event?<\/em><\/p>\n

BU\u2019s Dr Richard Shipway (pictured) is researching the longer term benefits that can be leveraged from the Games, with the aim of informing future policy for major sporting events. This has included working with organisations such as Visit Britain and Visit England to scrutinise their Games-related tourism activity, as well as looking to the past for inspiration.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are analysing everything that has worked in the past to take forward to future megaevents, such as the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, the 2014 Brazil Football World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics,\u201d he confirms.<\/em><\/p>\n

The state of Queensland, although distant from the 2000 Games host city Sydney, offers a good example. This region worked hard to capitalise on the tourism potential of hosting the Games with spin-off sports events, promoting itself as a destination for pre-Olympic and Paralympic Games training, identifying benefits for arts and cultural communities and working with local businesses to help them gain contracts and revenues associated with the Olympics.<\/em><\/p>\n

All these activities were publicised on the global stage. As a result, Queensland won Olympic contracts worth AU $408 million (\u00a3262 million), hosted more than 2,500 Olympic and Paralympic athletes from 48 countries, and welcomed 80% of the 181 Olympic teams to train in the region, which brought a further AU $36 million (\u00a323 million) to the economy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Less quantifiable but equally significant benefits include heightened media exposure and new relationships with partners in the tourism industry.<\/em><\/p>\n

International models like this will help devise recommendations for tourism legacy initiatives associated with global sports events, and with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games estimated to generate \u00a32.34 billion over a ten year period, it is crucial research.<\/em><\/p>\n

The potential benefits go beyond economics though. While it is harder to measure social impacts, much of the tourism legacy will hinge on these less tangible aspects. As Dr Shipway puts it: \u201cHow can you put a value on civic pride and public engagement? You cannot place a monetary value gained from Mrs Brown carrying the Olympic Torch or the impact of Mr Jones being a 2012 volunteer \u2013 but they have a huge societal tourism impact.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

These social impacts influence how the UK is portrayed globally in the media, or the warmth of the welcome that visitors receive when they get here. They can make or break our tourism industry.<\/em><\/p>\n

With precious little research having previously been invested in the tourism legacies of major sporting events, and a paucity of analysis over successful initiatives in this area, the work produced at BU by Dr Shipway and his colleagues should prove crucial to host nations, both now and in the future. Applied to London 2012, this is research that could keep the eyes of the world focused on the UK for years after the closing ceremonies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following on from yesterday\u2019s research chronicle blog, today we are posting Richard Shipways\u2019 article. Richard is holding a free conference on the London 2012 Legacy on Friday 9th November at the EBC, Bournemouth. The conference, called \u201cGoing for Gold: Leveraging Post Olympic Tourism Legacies\u201d, is open to anyone and has some fantastic Key Note Speakers…. Read more » about Bournemouth Research Chronicle: London 2012: the legacy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,164,7],"tags":[24,25,36,50,100,114,135],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-speakers","category-news","category-research","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-brc","tag-conference","tag-ebc","tag-legacy","tag-olympics","tag-school-of-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}