2018 Commonwealth Games: Operational Aspects, Economic Impact, and Environmental Perspective

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
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Executive Summary
The purpose of the following report is to highlight the different aspects of the 2018
Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia. The background
information about the Commonwealth Games and its importance has been discussed in this
paper. The operational plans and their strategies to conduct the event properly have been
highlighted properly. The justification of the arrangements of the tournament from the economic,
social and environmental perspectives has been given as well. The economic benefits have been
analyzed with some figures. The environmental impacts of this sports event have been crucial for
the betterment of the society as well.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Background and Operations............................................................................................................3
Justification of the event..............................................................................................................3
Operational considerations..........................................................................................................4
Sustainability/ Economic impact to the Gold Coast/ Queensland...................................................6
Financial perspective...................................................................................................................6
Social perspective........................................................................................................................7
Environmental perspective..........................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References and Bibliography...........................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The following report will focus on the event of the Commonwealth Sports. This is one of
the most famous sports events across the globe and many famous athletes have participated in
this event over the years. This sport event Commonwealth Games first began in the 1930. This
event takes place once in every four years. The last commonwealth games event was held in the
year 2018 at Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. The athletes are involved within the
Commonwealth nations. This sports event is probably the very first one where the number of the
men’s and women’s medals is equal. This practice has begun from the last year’s
Commonwealth games in the year 2018 (Gc2018.com 2019). This sports event has gone through
several changes in the recent times and many changes have been brought in this event as well. In
this report, operational aspects of running the sports events will be discussed along with the
financial perspectives of the games. The environmental impacts will also be discussed here as
well.
Background and Operations
Justification of the event
The sports event 2018 Commonwealth Games is one of the most fascinating sports events
in the history of the host city Gold Coast. This sports event was held between 4th and 15th April in
the year 2018. The main events of the Commonwealth Games 2018 took place mainly in Gold
Coast but few venues were also extended to Brisbane as well. In this year’s Games, around 19
sports events had been played out. Nearly 6600 athletes took part in the event and 300 para-
athletes took part in the event as well. This sports event is surely one of the most important
events in the history of the city. It was on November 11, 2011 when Gold Coast was announced