Positive and Negative Impacts of Olympics and Global Events

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Environmental Perspectives.............................................................................................................1
Environmental perspective related to Olympics..........................................................................1
Social prespective............................................................................................................................2
Social perspective related to Olympics........................................................................................2
The Impacts on the Tourism, Hospitality and Events Industries.....................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Global event can be defined as an international communications that is built to connect brands as
well as people via power of live events. Global events mange outsourced sales and is one of the
main sources of economy. One of the main purposes of global events is for enjoyment of
audience (Maqsood and et.al., 2020). This present study is based on global event Olympic that
has several positive and negative impacts on societies, health of people, environment and other
elements. One of the main positive impacts which this study will show is enjoyment and it is the
main reason of helping global events and Olympics and people remember such events for long
terms. It is also beneficial for athletes as they get opportunities to prove themselves and
competing at international level. On the other hand, this study will discuss some negative
impacts as well such as: increasing pollution, financial drain and health of people. Increasing
cost of the country is other negative impact as they have to invest in improving infrastructure
which can affect local people. Security is other main negative impact which Olympics and global
events have as people have fear of safety and being attacked. Overall aim of conducting this
study is to identify both positive and negative impacts which Olympics can have on different
aspects. It can help people in developing strategies and reducing all problems in an effective
manner. It has several critical impacts on tourism sector as well such as: it can attract tourists to
the great extent by improving infrastructure.
Environmental Perspectives
Environmental perspective related to Olympics
Hosting global sports and Olympics have several; positive and negative impacts. It is one
of the main sources of economy but it has several negative impacts on the environment. In this
context it can be said that for hosting Olympic, country require investing in food materials,
plastic bottles of water and other resources. People around the world come for enjoying and
watching all activities. Increasing rate of people and investment in all resources increases waste
to the great extent (Guizzardi, Mariani and Prayag, 2017). On the positive side it can be said that
it improves overall infrastructure of the country as for attracting more people and earning money,
government provide fund for improving infrastructure like making roads and others. It is
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