TITLE:
Does Creating Social Benefits with Hosting Small and Medium-Scale Sport Events “Today” Impact the Number of Sport Events Hosted “Tomorrow”?
AUTHORS:
Methammem Faten
KEYWORDS:
Small and Medium-Scale Sporting Events, Host Community, Social Impact, Panel Data Modeling
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.9,
September
19,
2023
ABSTRACT: Sport events hosted are beneficial for host population and governments
have made stronger claims about social benefits derived from such events. Using
1990-2022 panel data from multiple countries/cities, the current study aims to
examine the relationship between residents’ perception of the social impact
from hosting small and medium-scale sporting events and their attempt to win
the bid to host such future sporting events. According to Hover et al. (2016),
the social impact of sport events hosted is multi-dimensional. By using panel
data modeling we come to prove that all the social impact’s dimensions measured
over a year are positively correlated with the number of sport events hosted
over the coming year.