A Detailed Analysis of Tourism Impact: Olympics Games Hosting

This report delves into the multifaceted impacts of a government hosting the Olympics Games, primarily focusing on tourism and its economic consequences. It highlights the positive aspects, such as increased revenue generation within the tourism and hospitality sectors, and acknowledges the potential logistical challenges, like traffic congestion, that can arise. The report also addresses the environmental impacts, particularly the increase in carbon footprint and pollution levels, and emphasizes the importance of sustainability measures. It examines the short-term effects on the hospitality sector, the longer-term influences on a country's tourism destination status, and offers recommendations to mitigate negative impacts. The analysis covers various aspects of the tourism industry, including food and beverage, travel, lodging, and recreation, while also exploring the challenges associated with managing the influx of visitors and ensuring environmental responsibility during the event. Finally, the report stresses the need for proactive strategies to maintain a balance between economic gains and environmental preservation.

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Tourism Impact on Government Hosting Olympics Games
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Executive summary
Olympics Games is an international event that is hosted by different nations after every
four years. To host for the event means the nation meets the desired requirements stipulated by
Olympics committee. When a government hosts the event, it gain a positive impact when it
comes to tourism. The revenue generated from the sector has a significant impact on the
economy. However, since the number of people in the country are many, traffic jams becomes
and issues but to solve such issue, having a different stadium where people will stream live will
help minimize traffic jams. Also, the environment will be affected but reminding about the
responsibility of keeping the environment safe will help minimize pollution at that period.

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Table of Content
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………4
The Impact on the Tourism, Hospitality, and Event Industries…………………………………..5
Short-term effects on the hospitality sector………………………………………………5
Logistical challenges of hosting the event………………………………………………..6
Longer-term influences on the country as a tourism destination…………………………7
The Impacts from an Environmental Perspective………………………………………………...7
Carbon Footprint and Pollution…………………………………………………………...7
Sustainability………………………………………………………………………………9
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….10
Recommendation………………………………………………………………………………...10
Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………..11

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Introduction
People across the globe are different in terms of culture, race, religion, and beliefs. It is
seen how people discriminate against others because of their difference, but to bring unity among
all irrespective of their dissimilarities, an internal sport by the name of Olympics games is held
after every four years. The Olympics Games aim to promote Olympism, a philosophy of life,
exalting and combing in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will, and mind. Integrating
sports with education plus culture, then Olympism brings a balance of joy heavily invested in
educational value and respect bestowed on "universal fundamental ethical principles" (Games,
2020). Through Olympism, people experience a different kind of peace because they interact
with people different from them and understand them more.
Ancient Greece is where the Olympics games started, but its official revival was done late
19th century. In the mid-1960s, the only professional allowed to participate in such a global
event were beginners. As a way of promoting Olympism, from the year 1980, the Olympics
games were open to all people who have talents to show without discrimination. The Olympics
games currently host at least thirty games, where nations compete to enjoy pride in the country
of origin (Young, 2019).
Breaking the monopoly of hosting Olympics games, different nations worldwide enter
into a bid competition, and the winner is given the limelight to host the global event. Before
being given the green light, the Olympics committee must ensure the nation winning the bid
meets all the requirements of hosting a game. For example, the Olympics games were to be held
this year in Tokyo if it was not for the Coronavirus (Games, 2020). If Tokyo could have hosted
the games, it would have benefited positively and negatively. The positive impact is tourism
since many people will require hospitality services to accommodate them for a period of time

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they will be in the host country. On the other hand, the negative impact is pollution, which will
increase because not all people will maintain a clean environment. Therefore, the paper will
discuss the tourism impact of a government bidding to host the Olympics games in detail. Also,
the paper will discuss environmental impacts and offer recommendations on the problems to be
experienced.
The Impact on the Tourism, Hospitality, and Event Industries
Tourism is one of the biggest pillars of the economy for every nation—people across the
world experience nature from different locations in different nations. Since the tourism revenue
generated from the airport to hotels and buying of local commodities is high, a host country
needs to maximize its hospitality. When a person visits the country, they have the urge to come
back. To portray a good picture of the country, the event personnel should use advanced
technology to accommodate exposure enjoyed in developed countries such as the United States
of America. Therefore, this segment will discuss short-term effects on the hospitality sector,
logistical challenges of hosting the event, and longer-term influences on the country as a tourism
destination.
Short-term effects on the hospitality sector
The hospitality sector revolves around any institution within a host country that aims to
satisfy a customer on leisure goods and services. Some of these services include cruise lines,
transportation, theme parks, event planning, and lodging. Regarding this, there are four types of
hospitality sector. The first segment is food and beverage, which engages in preparations of
beverages, snacks, and meals that are to be consumed in and out of the restaurant (Novak, 2017).
The sector offers first class services to customers to maximize guest experiences. The second

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segment is to travel and tourism. When people visit a foreign state for leisure, their travel is
based on enjoyment, where they will spend a lot of money on recreational activities and
lodgings. The state of traveling from one place to another, either for business or leisure purposes,
is tourism, making people spend money on hospitality (Novak, 2017). The third segment is
lodging, where people spend money to sleep in a certain process before they progress to the next
destination. The last segment is a recreation where people carry out various activities for
enjoyment or relaxing purpose.
The short term effect of the above will be high because people worldwide will flock into
the country and book for hotels that offer the whole package from food, beverages, and
accommodation. The tourism revenue will also be high because the hotels' demand is high, and
the hotels will not match supply, meaning the price will go high. The stakeholders of the
hospitality industry will enjoy an increase in payment since the money supply is high.
Logistical challenges of hosting the event
Moving from one place to another through any means of transportation is known as
logistics. Since all hotels within the Olympics games' location cannot accommodate all people, it
means that people will seek hotels outside the city. It means that the logistics from the hotels to
the stadiums can be challenging variously to attend the events. One way is through a traffic jam
where every person will hire a car to help them arrive at the destination easily. Since the roads
cannot accommodate hundreds of cars, the traffic jam will be intense to a point where many
people will not witness the games' live performance. Also, the price of hiring cars will be high
because of demand and supply. The local people will find it difficult to hire cars making it hard
to offer transport services to foreign people.

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Longer-term influences on the country as a tourism destination
The first appearance of what the people see means a lot to them. If they are happy with
the hospitality services offered to them, it is evident that they will come back. If they are not
happy with the services, the probability of coming back is equivalent to zero. Therefore, on a
long term basis, the tourism sector will be determined by what the visitors will experience during
the Olympics games.
The Impacts from an Environmental Perspective
Climate change is said to have a significant effect on the environment. During the
Olympics Games, the pollution rate could increase because people do not safeguard the
environment standards. Also, companies that try to meet stadiums' standards will increase the
rate of pollution because they are always in a hurry to meet the standards and work within a
given time frame hence, causing pollution. In regards to this, this segment will major in carbon
footprint and pollution and also sustainability.
Carbon Footprint and Pollution
The carbon footprint is defined as the amount of carbon gas that is generated by people.
In the United States of America, one person produces sixteen tons, and this is the primary cause
of higher temperatures that increases by 2 degrees Celsius. Since the amount produced per
person is high, it is estimated that to maintain a stable climate change; a person is supposed to
produce at least two tons (Conservancy, 2020). To achieve the change, every person must
minimize eating meats, line drying clothes, and connecting flights to connect from one place to
another. With such sacrifices, it will be possible to reduce carbon footprints significantly.

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In the case of hosting Olympics games, the rate of carbon footprints will go high. People
will connect flights from their home countries to the host nation to witness the global event. The
number of people traveling within one month to one week to the start of the global event will be
thousands of people. If one person produces at least sixteen tons, the carbon footprint will
increase by the number of people who will fly to the host nation. Besides, when these people
visit the nation, they come across different people who enjoy different cultures. Their interaction
will increase meat taking, which is another factor that increases the carbon footprint. Integrating
local and international visitors means that the number of meat taking will double or triple with
such a short period of time, increasing carbon footprint again on the issue of pollution resulting
from transport. Since movement by cars, rails, and flights will increase, air pollution or carbon
pollution will increase for that short period of time.
Sustainability
How people live today determines how their future will be like. When people destroy
today, the chances they will rectify their problems in the future are almost zero. At that particular
time, they will have ailing needs that will need amicable attention. In the case of the
environment, it is important to take up all measures necessary to ensure that by the year 2050,
carbon footprints and pollution will have reduced significantly hence stabilizing the economic
changes.
One of the long-term issues a government can take today to ensure a safe and clean
environment for all avoid papers (Chi, 2016). When the visitors come and enjoy their stay within
the hotel, the hotels' management should serve them with reusable items. For example, one
segment of the hospitality industry is food and beverages; thus, the item used to be reusable to

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avoid pollutions in the future. Another long-term solution recycling wastes, and this will help
reduce soil pollution (Chi, 2016).
As far as environmental awareness is concerned, it is the government's responsibility to
ensure that it put waste bins across the major cities where many people will be located. The
waste bins should be labeled what kind of waste products should be put on the bins. The strategy
will help to dispose of the waste in a way that will not affect the environment. Throughout the
games, the government, through the event organizers, needs to have a strategy that they will keep
on reminding people of the importance of having clean and safe energy (Padmanabhan, 2008).
With such strategies, people will be aware of what they have to do to conserve the environment.
The last sustainability solution is a technological innovation that will help minimize
environmental pollution. Since the technology is advancing, scientists and engineers have
developed another transport idea where the normal type of vehicles are replaced with car loops
(Chi, 2016). The produced cars do not pollute the environment in any way, and if such
innovation is followed to the latter, the world will achieve a safe and clean environment by the
year 2050.
Conclusion
Olympics games, as an international event, brings peace and benefits to the hosting
nation. In the tourism sector, tourism revenues will increase, which will significantly impact
economics. Also, the logistics plans to move from point one to another during the period will be
difficult because the demands for cars will be high compared to the number of cars roads can
have at a given time. This will cause traffic jams and chaos because people are paid to witness
live events, but it's impossible. Also, the rate of environmental pollution will increase with time.

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Still, the best strategy to use is to create awareness that everybody can ensure a safe and clean
environment.
Recommendation
Many problems come with hosting Olympics games, but no problem does not have a
solution. Some of the recommendations to the above-mentioned problems includes;
1. Government should consider putting up another stadium, even where players are no
participating in traffic jams. With technology, it puts up a bigger screen that will allow
people to witness a live performance. Having an alternative stadium will divert traffic jams
into different destinations. The first-come will be first served by witness live performances
in the arena where plays will be playing. The last come will be given an alternative stadium.
2. On the issue of carbon footprint and pollution, the government should find out a mechanism
that will remind people of the importance of having a clean environment. For example, on
the screen that will be put up, when live events go for a break, people should be told the
importance of being environmentally friendly and being reminded they are responsible for
ensuring a safe and clean environment.
3. Lastly, on the issue of increased prices due to demand, the government should interfere and
set standards that will be followed by all services providers. For example, the government
can increase every service provider mark up by 10 percent. It will ensure that they get extra
profits, but it is not exaggerated because they are hosting Olympics games.

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