Attraction and Event Management: Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics

This article discusses the life cycle stage of Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics and proposed recommendation related to the sustainability. It covers the formation, growth, staging, and future development stage of the event.

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Attraction and Event management
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Introduction
The events are an important motivator and progressively assist in the development of
Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics. It is formally known as XXII Olympic Winter Games,
which is a global winter multi-sport event that normally held within 9 to 25 February 2018 in
South Korea. Event management can be initiated and established on both national and
international level. The attraction is considerably not a part of event management as it is
proposed for experiences, culture, learning, and sporting activities (Rowe, 2018). In the
following, an effort has been made to discuss the life cycle stage of Pyeongchang’s Winter
Olympics and proposed recommendation related to the sustainability.
Formation stage of the Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics
It is stated that for a long period, events play a very big part in society as well as the
development of sports events and other attraction activities. The Pyeongchang’s Winter
Olympics is a mega event, which delivers an opportunity for cultural and leisure experiences.
Special consideration is been given to Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics 2018, their formation
stage, saturation point, and growth stage, which leads to increase in international growth
population, leisure time, and development (Ahn, 2018). For the event to be successful, they
have to build the strategy so that the event is well planned and meticulous. Any event
planning on most occasions has a committee of experts that provides the direction as what
needs to be done to achieve the event. The Olympic event has been driven by a committee of
experts to achieve success. In the formation stage, they are forming a strategy of developing a
tick list, safeguard that all bases are covered in achieving the success and make effective for
the society. They are contributing to making some improvements on the rail and road
networks, and venues. They are also making plans to connect with fans of Olympic and make
a successful event. This attribution indicated to make sure that it is well equipped, safety
should be considered, and participants should be protected (Park, 2018).
Growth stage of the Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics
In this stage, planning a mega event such as Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics is very
challenging as with the help of experts, the planning and implementation can be much
simpler and beneficial. There are many issues, which is always experienced even if they are
common (Kim and Chung, 2018). Such issues are unpleasant weather, limited space,
increasing cost, inducing a crowd, over-attendance, difficult layout, losing attention from the

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fans during the planning and implementation. It is stated that event planning will discuss
various challenges that they have to deal with and solve as early as possible. It is quite
satisfied that what needs to be done and easily dealing with the condition is based upon the
beliefs and knowledge of the event management. The managers of the event-planning
manager would be in a situation to plan in a very effective way and continue the event
without facing any challenge (Lee, 2016).
Staging of the Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics
The third life-cycle stage is the Staging, which is the main concern and it is the principal of
all the activities in the coming event. It is seen that despite the assurance from the board, it
seems like things are not going on the right track. The speed at which the work of
construction is being undertaken is to a very small extent (Golovachev, Kolykhmatov and
Shirokova, 2017). This is the main issue, which may generate challenges and interfere with
the pre-activities of the Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics. On the development of the needs
and facilities, maintain hospitality, and plan the situation of the event if it goes unfavorable
and easily attains success and growth. It has reached its finale, which is a truly amazing
moment and attains respect and recognition from all the people who are in the event.
However, in the PyeongChang, the Korean delegation was allied with the individuals from a
neighboring nation. It is supporting cooperatively in a strong manner of the proficiency to
develop peace and harmony. It carries an optimistic attitude in the overall situation of the
PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, as it aids in producing a commitment to the world.
With the development of core themes of the Olympic Games, they should maintain mutual
respect and recognition, where it presents in the event and make it very interesting (Kshetri
and Rojas-Torres, 2018).
Future Development of the Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics
It is an important key towards the success of hosting and developing main events such as the
Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics, which is majorly dependent upon the capability of the city
to trade off the perfections should be generated in the event and to continue delivering the
dream of achieving the success (Yoon and Wilson, 2018). The future development can have
immense potential for the host destination in the international context. They should develop
the tourism product development and enhancement into the national as well as international

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community. They should host the development of the Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics
efficiently in future (Lee and Son, 2016).
Recommendation and Conclusion
 Generate an environment- They should make individual committed to regarding an
event during unpleasant conditions can be a major challenge. The unfavorable
weather leads to draw attention with correct action of the plan. Subsequently, the
event is held in summer, it is significant with warm summer and makes to generate a
healthy and prosperous environment (Kramer, 2018).
 Evade estimation costs- They should plan and incorporate an event, it is significant
to evade the estimated costs for the whole event in achieving success in the future.
The estimation cost might increase at the end of the year. They should take the event
on a right track by dividing the estimation costs on a proper scale and adequately
manage the cost. They should also have the backup plan for the event whenever
possible. They should efficiently manage the event in a systematic manner. This will
assist in evading the possible failures because of the inadequate funds and resources
distributed for the event. However, the organizers of the Olympic have always
achieved success in the event, as it is significant to give attention for the sake of its
sustainability (Essex and de Groot, 2016).
 Time management- It is stated that they should invest the right resources at the
correct time, which is significant. It has always been a norm in every aspect that when
the Olympic event achieves, there is going to maintain the time in infrastructure
expansion and diversification. The organizers of the Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics
require to manage the time in evading the consequences that have face the hurdle in
this event (Ross and Leopkey, 2017).
The Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics 2018 has moved towards sustainability. They have
encouraged contributing positively by properly dealing with differences and challenges.
At a quite extent, it has achieved success to manage the regulations and policies of the
event. In the above part, the discussion has been made on the formation, growth, staging,
and future development stage of the event. It is required to develop integrity and peace,
which is the main goal of the Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics. It has been requiring a
great effort in making the event successful and attains the growth and event life cycle

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stage in the future. They should make sure the smooth continuation of the event in the
future.

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