A simple-to-use procedure to evaluate the social and economic impacts of sporting events on local communities Online publication date: Tue, 05-Jun-2007
by J.M. Rueda-Cantuche, J.M. Ramirez-Hurtado
International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM), Vol. 2, No. 5/6, 2007
Abstract: As pointed out by Matheson (2002) and Lee (2001), the validity of economic (and social) impact studies on sporting events is quite uncertain and inaccurate. Most of economists believe that they largely exaggerate real impacts on local communities since they are conducted by vested interest agents. Moreover, data availability problems join the issue, when local communities are analysed. Consequently, cities should instead rely on social and economic impact estimates carried out by research groups and/or research public institutions, which are expected to be impartial. As a result, jointly with the local government of the City of Seville, Spain, this paper provides a simple-to-use procedure to elaborate a yearly local system of occasional sporting events' ex ante evaluations of social and economic impacts. The empirical part has been developed for one of the tournaments of the XV Spanish National Championship of Beach-Volley 2005, hosted by the City of Seville.
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:
Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.
If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com
Our Blog 
Follow us on Twitter 
Visit us on Facebook