The number of domestic sponsorships sold throughout the years very similarly to that of the ticketing. There again seems to be a correlation between the number of domestic sponsors and with the size of the hosting country, with the Atlanta games in the US having the highest number of domestic sponsorship. Unlike the ticketing revenue […]
Link here “Gearing up for the 2016 Olympic Games to be held here, officials celebrated plans for a futuristic “Olympic Park,” replete with a waterside park and athlete villages, promoting it as “a new piece of the city.” There was just one problem: the 4,000 people who already live in that part of Rio de […]
An underdeveloped transportation infrastructure led to the unfortunate nickname “the Chaos Games” for Atlanta in 1996. The Atlanta Olympic Games were approached by private investors with private interests, following the Los Angeles ’84 plan: they wanted to save money wherever they could and maximize their profits, […]
International environmental watchdogs, such as Greenpeace and the United Nations Environment Programme have become more vocal on large scale sporting events trying to get the respective organizing committees to think about all issues that encompass an event from pre-event planning to post-event reuse and recycling. Greenpeace has created Olympic Environmental Guidelines that outline 34 guidelines […]
For the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the chosen site was located in the historic Bund and largely residential area. Shanghai has been replacing the old for the new for the past two decades or so, but this project created a surge of demolition and has synthetically altered the fabric in one fell swoop. This also created […]