Analysis of Global Events: Benefits, Risks, and Recommendations

This report provides an executive summary and analysis of global events, focusing on the Olympics as a key example. It examines the benefits of hosting such events, including job creation, intercultural exchange, and infrastructure improvements, while also addressing disadvantages such as ineff...Read More

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Executive summary:
Hosting of global events like Olympics require a great amount of reparation as it may lead to
large number of benefits for countries who are hosting such type of events. In both social,
economic and financial perspective it leads to large amount of growth opportunities. There is a
high amount of investment that is made by both public and the private sector of employees in
this sector. It will leads to better up-gradation of sporting facilities, improvement in the overall
infrastructure, enhancement of trade, new trade development, investment and marketing
opportunities that creates higher participation in sports.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................5
Benefits of hosting event:................................................................................................................5
The legacy of sports facilities:....................................................................................................5
Issues relating to health and safety:............................................................................................6
The Health Impacts:....................................................................................................................6
The impacts from an environmental perspective........................................................................7
The impacts from a social perspective .......................................................................................7
Recommendation:............................................................................................................................8
Conclusions......................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Global events are defined as the set of events that are taking place for a limited time
duration for reaching towards the people across globe. They require a significant attention as
they are taking place in large scale and posses a impact on the population and the overall external
environment (Ahn, 2018). Global events are the different events that are happening across
different parts of the world. It consist of events such as Olympic festivals, cultural events, music
festivals and other events that are taking place according to the size and scale of the such events.
Olympic is a global event that is taking place across different parts of the world according to the
time scenario.
Benefits of hosting event:
Olympic games lead to generation of more job opportunities as there is proper
infrastructure improvements that is part of hosting of such events, there is better intercultural
exchange that ates place by thousand of athletes, sponsors, specialists and media who are hosting
the host country (Čuk and Šibanc, 2018). All this leads to additional revenue in terms of
investment, tourism as there is attraction of international businesses and visitors, there is
sporting facilities that leads to development of work class post games.
Disadvantage of hosting events:
The negative impact is in the form of inefficient investment there is a situation when
locals are facing congestion. There is increasing cost to taxpayers and many time Olympic
stadium also remains unused. Many times public is also not supportive and in case of the vent
becoming unsuccessful the society and the overall economy is facing large amount of losses.
Another disadvantage of hosting event is that wide amount of resources are used at lager
scale. It negatively affects the overall market structure of society, community and nation. Many
events are there which uses these resources but not optimum level.
These might include:
The legacy of sports facilities:
Olympic games, world cups & other global sporting events are showcasing the best talent
that athletes are showcasing. This is the part of the health related physical activities and there is
also potential health related risks that arise because of the mass gatherings of people around the
world. The public health legacy was a intraline component of the London 2012 Olympic games

that increased with mass participation in sports. There is sometimes insufficient evidence that a
multi-sport event can impact the socio-economic of health related issue of the host city.
Lack of evidence does not mean that there is lack of influence as there can be other
downstream effects that may arise because of such type of global events. Public safety and
Security are also key concerns for every visitor to such events (Koutrou and Pappous, , 2016).
Olympics is a event that leads towards reinforcing of the negative perception that people might
posses related to a country. Many countries and the people across different past of the world are
so pessimistic about the way Olympics is taking place and there is overall benefit for the society.
Mega sport events line Olympics result into a common vision that created a international prestige
and citizens can get emotionally involved. It is a period of hosting events that creates a national
practice for feeling of recognition and participation that is arsing because of technologically up-
gradation and higher participation.
Therefore, the above specified paragraph shows that it is essential to events are both
beneficial as well as non-beneficial. So, while hosting events appropriate knowledge is need to
be there so that objectives are accomplished.
Issues relating to health and safety:
Health & safety are being considered as important part of individual life. They aim at
protecting their health from harmful things and activities. Moreover, it is also essential to focus
on from which situations, or events the health of individual might get affected. It is too necessary
to examine these issues so that proper measures are undertaken by individuals.
The Health Impacts:
The health impact Includes the spreading of Zika virus that was outbreak in the year
2015. there is no vaccine or medicine for this virus that leads to higher risk factor that are still
unknown and may lead to creation of a situation of higher uncertainty for athletes and audiences
who are part of this Olympic events. There can be negative impact on the health because of
contaminated water or food (Kobierecki and Strożek, 2020). There is issues of dehydration of
some health related awareness because of the humidity, heat, cold or nay be other weather
conditions that can lead to situations of heat stroke, heat exhaustion during such sprung events.
Hyponatremia is also a issues that is because of the excessive sodium loss in sweat it is a
type of imbalance that leads to nausea, dizziness, headache, muscle cramps and severe cases of
seizures, death ore coma that is resulting into signs of dehydration. Other health related issues

consist of fractures, dislocation, musculoskeletal injuries of all the participants. Athletes have
reported 287 injuries in 2010 games and one of the most common includes overuse injuries or
facial injuries hockey players may suffer from facial damage.
Noise pollution- It is another health risk which is faced by individual when events are
hosted. This is because events are being carried out with loud noise which negatively affects the
health of old age people. This noise pollution are necessary to be examined so that measures are
taken such as buds etc.
Issues relating to potential public health risks:
There are certain issues that might lead to a scenario of higher risk to the public who are
attained such events in Olympics. Such risks includes:
emergency management: When a event is taking place in open it may be crowded with people
who posses very little or no knowledge so there has to be sufficient information so that there is
higher safety of direct visitors. There has to be timely initiation of alarm to make aware of the
actions to follow event of alarm.
Injury or illness: it is also a serious health impact that can arise in the situation of global events.
It is essential for individual to protect from these health risks by taking appropriate
measures & going on event which does not impacts upon their health.
The impacts from an environmental perspective
In case of organisation of global events such as Olympics there is a impact on the overall
external environment. For this there has to be a detailed evolutional of the different
environmental perspectives that posses both positive and negative impact. So, it becomes very
crucial to make a detailed analysis of such aspects that posing a crucial impact in the external
working conditions (Gaudette, Roult and Lefebvre, 2017). Some of the impact from the
environmental perspective are evaluated as mentioned below:
Carbon footprint and pollution: Carbon footprints are considered as elements that are
affecting the environment as it consist of high level of emission in the external atmosphere. In
2020 summer Olympics that were planned to be held in Tokyo could have stared in July 2020
but it was postponed to year 2021 because of the Covid impact that has been one of this historic
decisions. There is affect on the external environment in form of water sources getting moper
polluted and there are higher health hazards in the event (Vierhaus, 2019). There is higher
concentration of bacteria and viruses in waterways and sea that leads to serious pollution.

Sustainability- It is one of the mots crucial concepts in the cents and tourism studies that
is experienced because of the exponential growth that has taken place since mid 1980s. There has
been uneven distribution of benefits in the host community that are leading to higher issues
because of the surrounding environmental sustainability of summer and winter Olympic games
on the overall natural environment.
In context of environmental perspective, it is crucial to focus on these stated
environmental impacts so that it is easy to analyse which event is negatively impacting upon
surroundings.
The impacts from a social perspective
One of the benefit from social perspective point is that Olympics is dealing to attracting
thousands of people during the games are held to the city hosting such events, the foreign tourist
can boost the overall standards of living for the local economy. There are local tourist, Hotels,
shops, exchange of culture that leads to enhancement of the living standards of the local people.
Intangible benefits- There are many intangible benefits that are generated because of
social cohesion that takes place and leads to building up of string mutual coordination with
society and community as a whole. There is enhancement of mutual respect between each other.
Regeneration opportunities- other benefit are generated in terms of better employment
opportunities for short term workers (Zeindl and Koenigstorfer, 2020). There is also community
development that takes place as there is building up of bridges and streets for mass transit lines
& public buildings that are constructed towards the process of new process development that
leads to long term utility for the local population (Patreze, da Silva and Robinson, , 2020).
There is better display of the local culture as there is demonstration of ability as a
community industry or any other image that is present to the external world. Such as in the year
2008 when Olympics where held in Beijing there was increasing display of the local culture as
there was display of chines culture to rest of the world.

Recommendation:
There are some of the recommendations that are drawn based on the above discussed analysis:
 Private industry is also stimulated by the expected influx of money that leads to a positive
impact on post event legacy. So there has to be higher involvement of the private sector
along with the government involvement. This will result into high quality and standards
measures which could result in boosting of local residents and lead to positive long term
impact on the individual participation.
 There has to be more emphasis on the environmental conversation and the clean-up
objectives so that there can be timely improvement of the water quality.
 Further recommendation is that practitioners need to be active when any event is being
organised so that they can scan it properly.
 The main purpose of every Olympic event has to be to further contribution towards the
social development so that there is leaving of overall economic, social, cultural and a
better environmental legacies to they hosting regions. For this every host country must
work towards development of overall society's mental and physical health criteria.
 Sports is a activity that is not only related to the physical health but must always be
associated with the mental health with high amount of transportation. For there has to be
contribution by the hosting region to facilitate the process of health legacies that will
enhance the satisfaction of people who participated as well as the people who attended
the event.
Thus, above stated recommendations are needed to be considered properly so that it is
easier to make decisions about whether to take participate or not.

Conclusions
After a brief analysis of above report, it has been concluded that it is essential to be
aware about types of events which are being happening in countries. This report gives a brief
information about impacts of global environment on individual. So, discussions as been made
about benefits of hosting event, issues related to health & safety and social perspectives.
Therefore, it has been evaluated that it is crucial to focus on impact of events on market so that
objectives are achieved. In this changing market, it is essential to be conduct a market analysis so
that events are organised in most efficient way. Events are essential for achieving growth &
development of nation. It is essential to make assure that correct form of organising events are
adapted.

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