The terminology of legacy is different meanings to other people within the event industry. The term was argue by Schlenker (2013) of the different meaning of legacy as opposed to using words such as ‘impact’, ‘outcome’ and ‘structure’. Cashman’s (2003) also states that the word legacy means entirely a different sources in other countries that isn’t relevant to English. Sadd’s (2012) highlights that the main concept of event legacy represent the results, implications and the after effect of an event. However, Chappelet (2013) explains that A legacy may, in fact, be either positive or negative depending on the tourists personal opinion on the *mega event. A case of positive legacy would be the Liverpool European capital of culture (2008). According
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However, the cities may run into different legacy issues such as white elephants. Smith (2012) explains how they are venues that are built purposely for the mega events like the Olympics, however, after the event they are often abandoned because they are too expensive to open to the public. Cities of the event often think they need a new venue to attract more people to come their event, but smith (2012) argues that cities build the venues to show off to different politicians around the world about their amazing new venue that they don’t have or external pressure to use up their empty or wasted land to build a band new venue. An example of a white elephant would be the ANZ Stadium that was built for the 2000 Sydney Olympics games which had seating of 80,000. After the Olympics, there was little interested in different events being held there, until 2003 when they hosted the rugby world cup and made a profit. Still, after the event, the event still remains a white elephant. The ANZ stadium has not provided Sydney with a good legacy and has not benefitted regeneration, as the venue is now wasted land which could have been used for a more appropriate infrastructure for …show more content…
Nevertheless the numbers of tourism just decrease to the figures that they were before the event happened. An example of this happening would be the 2004 Olympics games in Athens. Boukas (2013) explains that during the 2004 Olympics games tourist rates were successful as Athens gave the tourists more of an insight into the culture events and festivals that happened during the games. Boukas (2013) also clarifies that after the event, the tourism aspect of the city decreased back to how it was before the Olympics. This was due to a lack of planning for what would happen after the event. Smith (2012) expands to say that Athens didn’t even have a business plan for after the events and there are many white elephants venues around after the games. The point of the Olympics is to regenerate neglected places, encourage children to take up sports and to leave a country in a better conditions then it was before which Athens did not achieve (Usborne,
However, the cities may run into different legacy issues such as white elephants. Smith (2012) explains how they are venues that are built purposely for the mega events like the Olympics, however, after the event they are often abandoned because they are too expensive to open to the public. Cities of the event often think they need a new venue to attract more people to come their event, but smith (2012) argues that cities build the venues to show off to different politicians around the world about their amazing new venue that they don’t have or external pressure to use up their empty or wasted land to build a band new venue. An example of a white elephant would be the ANZ Stadium that was built for the 2000 Sydney Olympics games which had seating of 80,000. After the Olympics, there was little interested in different events being held there, until 2003 when they hosted the rugby world cup and made a profit. Still, after the event, the event still remains a white elephant. The ANZ stadium has not provided Sydney with a good legacy and has not benefitted regeneration, as the venue is now wasted land which could have been used for a more appropriate infrastructure for …show more content…
Nevertheless the numbers of tourism just decrease to the figures that they were before the event happened. An example of this happening would be the 2004 Olympics games in Athens. Boukas (2013) explains that during the 2004 Olympics games tourist rates were successful as Athens gave the tourists more of an insight into the culture events and festivals that happened during the games. Boukas (2013) also clarifies that after the event, the tourism aspect of the city decreased back to how it was before the Olympics. This was due to a lack of planning for what would happen after the event. Smith (2012) expands to say that Athens didn’t even have a business plan for after the events and there are many white elephants venues around after the games. The point of the Olympics is to regenerate neglected places, encourage children to take up sports and to leave a country in a better conditions then it was before which Athens did not achieve (Usborne,