Event Life Cycle Application to Peongchang’s Winter Olympics 2018

Event Life Cycle Application to
Peongchang’s Winter Olympics
2018

Table of Contents
Introduction of Pyeongchang winter Olympics 2018................................................................3
Investigate the formation, growth, staging stages in event life cycle model.............................4
South Korea’s plan for future development of event addressing stigma of ghost post
Olympics sites............................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

Introduction of Pyeongchang winter Olympics 2018
The winter Olympics held in Peongchang, South Korea in 2018, consists of international
participation in multitude of games and sports, which can be performed over snow and ice.
The opening ceremony of the games took place in 9th February 2018, celebrated with pomp
and grandeur, showing the potential the country has on hosting the ceremony. Seoul the
capital of South Korea had previously hosted the summer Olympics of 1988, however
Peongchang endured to improve its stance in hosting the event with wide variation from the
past (Derman et al.,2018). The city imbibed event management with new technology
innovation and attracted a multitude of people from all across the globe, to bring influx of
people, and to develop the tourism industry of the country. The winter Olympics are
generally hosted via bidding, and upon final choice of the venue and the country, 15 games
are hosted in the event. There are team events and individual participations within the event
and a wide number of sports are played down the slope. Skiing, freestyle skiing, biathlon,
Nordic combines, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, are some events taking
place on slope. Over the ice, the most common sports include, bobsled, hockey, short tract,
curling, figure skating, speed skating, skeleton etc. there are more than 102 events within
these 15 sports, enabling the participant teams to win medals in the form of gold, silver and
bronze. There are many events, which are gender baised, and this can be seen from the
events, which were boosted in favour of girls in 2018 winter Olympics, to bring wider
participation from girls (Gaudette et al., 2017).