MOD003325 - Analyzing the Impacts of Hosting the World Cup: A Report

This report examines the multifaceted impacts of hosting the World Cup, focusing on economic, environmental, and social perspectives. Economically, it explores job creation, costs to taxpayers, and future trade opportunities. Environmentally, it discusses carbon footprint, pollution, and regeneration opportunities. Socially, it considers intangible benefits like social cohesion and the role of policing. The report concludes with recommendations for maximizing benefits and minimizing challenges, including cost-effective planning, sustainable practices, and corporate social responsibility initiatives, emphasizing the need for organizers to address these factors to ensure a successful and beneficial event for host countries. The report also highlights the importance of attracting investment and fostering trust with tourists and the audience to enhance the overall value and legacy of the World Cup.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Analyzing economic impacts of hosting the World Cup in different countries.........................3
Analyzing 3 distinct perspectives of economic impacts of hosting the World Cup...................4
Analyzing impacts from an environmental perspective.............................................................5
Analyzing the impacts from a social perspective.......................................................................6
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................7
RECOMMENDATIONS................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
World Cup is particularly an international tournament held in every four years, in which
teams of several countries participate in popular sport competition. Process of getting expression
from the organizers of these world cup events, aims to grow game globally and increase fans and
prepare them to travel support their team. Organizers expect this trend to continue rise, by
aggregate diverse audience at one platform from different parts of the world. The positive view
point of hosting huge events in the countries are, it increases valuable tourism in host countries
and cities which boost local economics. Global audience play major role in drive success of
these events and provide these countries with the opportunities of development and growth.
Hosting countries which are considering bid may cause them benefits and risks, which
may not be worth investments and need focus by strategic thinking. Countries have many areas
of concern because decision of hosting mega events, as they can cause economic windfalls.
Public support can aid in a successful world cup event as community support events which give
local business benefits to the citizens (Al-Dosari, 2020). However, investment in infrastructure
are very expensive and cost bearable for host countries. These events also cause environment
pollutions like carbon footprints, plastic pollution and water pollution.
Main aim of the report is to examine the various perceptive of countries considering bid
for these mega-events depending upon several aspects which will create anatomy in decision of
choosing host cities. Hosting these events which have positive and negative impacts from
business perspective covering economic impacts which will include job creation, cost to the tax
payer and future, environmental and social perspective like policing. These decisions are crucial
as they are based on current infrastructure on the countries and affect future investment which a
country can attract by accepting proposal of host these events offers.
MAIN BODY
Analyzing economic impacts of hosting the World Cup in different countries
The main aim shedding light on various aspects that different countries are considering
to make a successful bid for contributing in the world's tournament events like World Cup.
Elaborating different perspective which impacting economic of the countries. Tourist are often
cited as a benefit of hosting world cup in the cities as people come from different parts of the
world which results the local hotels and restaurants make money (Al-Dosari, 2020). Overall
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economy boosted if folk of tourism move into different countries and helps to generate revenue
in various industries connected to them.
Analysing 3 distinct perspectives of economic impacts of hosting the World Cup
 Job creations- World cup, the event influences the general global economy in which
segment to job creation plays positive role in organizing these immense events.
International tournaments has elevated the global economy significantly, as it creates
lifetime opportunities for people with millions of jobs. These events give recreational
opportunities by generating new jobs as these events occupies number of people and
teams in management (Johnston, Naylor, and Dickson, 2021). In addition to that it gives
local development benefits as it requires different working units for coordination event
activities in hosting city. Marketing lead and event operation including on-site lead ,
accommodates pertaining to major components which requires hiring. In term of tourism
these events increase volume of tourist services in host cities. World cup accelerates
direct and indirect benefits to the host country in depth, these events comprised of teams
working under master- planning, transport, operations and venue designs which creates
variety of jobs for the host country.
 Cost to the taxpayer- Additional money spend while hosting these events as organizers
and visitors increase their spend. Folk tourism attracts with these mega events, which
come to the host cities which increases their money spend on various activities which
ultimately burden taxpayers as expenditure increase. Cost increase in the area related to
hospitality and tourism increase in terms of negative impact on the local citizens of the
city.
 Future trades- The world cup gives every country the chance to expand their
international transaction which shapes the trade. Hosting the world cups, countries can
see the value in the national exposer which raise future trade as many people viewing
and attending the event. World cup helps to generate revenue from future trade
opportunities which can be created by hosting these events (Lien, and Lo, 2017).
Country's international exposer for business communities, increases scale and scope in
the future development as it adds value to the countries' GDP and upgrade infrastructure.
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Investment in these events help host countries to raise the commercial capabilities which
also helps to bid planning in the future.
Analysing impacts from an environmental perspective
 Carbon footprint and pollution- Most notable effect of hosting countries experiences
influencing many environmental hazard like carbon footprints. These events create high
pollutions in the atmosphere. Tonnes of CO2 emission in the environment and raise
pollution in surroundings. These events inevitably increase negative environment impact
includes chemical, noise, vehicle emission and sewerage in the area in and around event
site.
World cup host required to build multiple strategies and take initiative to save the
environment by using solar power stadium and rain water collection (Maia and et.al., 2020).
World cup needs to take environmental initiatives by bringing sustainable proposals in
organizing events by setting bench marks, for example announcing Carbon-free world cup
tournaments and set sustainable standards in the tournament guidelines. On the other hand, not
following or avoiding these major factors can cause negative impact the goodwill of event which
will reduce attraction from the audience and new investors.
 Regeneration opportunities- Organize big events like world cup can give various
opportunities to the host countries such as short and long term jobs, new business ideas,
increase sales in list of businesses and many more. World Cup in different countries
encourage the investment of public money to invest into events as these are supportive
measure of economic and social decline. Mega events are short-term events which are
high profile have significant impact on host countries as it stimulates re-development and
promote economic growth. Following specific regulates support in the growth and
accelerate the entire process (Mair and et.al., 2021). Theses mega events help to raise
transporting links, vulnerability to tourism and raise profile of the city which regenerate
opportunities with long and short-term economic benefits.
On the other hand, the legacy from the considerable investment which are supporting
faculties of the event can be impacted negative for the host country if these factors not prioritize
in the early planning stage. It includes areas long term investments like building new stadiums.
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Analysing the impacts from a social perspective
 Intangible benefits (e.g. social cohesion, morale, entertainment)- The world cup
increases valuable tourism in the host country which leads to economic raise, as in these
events call many national and international people involve social perspective. It also
leads to increase country's global trade and structure. It helps to create a sense of national
pride and social cohesion (Oja, Wear and Clopton, 2018). It creates morale for host
because these events take a lot of funds and stable economic infrastructure on which
country get selected as hosting partner ultimately results goodwill for a country. It
generates future opportunities for development and growth as these big events helps to
attract big investment plans for the host countries. These long term investment brings
entertainment as jobs and enthusiasm among viewers, by increasing new significant
opportunities in the future.
Sometimes World cup does not contribute in the successful event and results in huge
downfall for the economic perspective as well as social perspective. World cup events may give
financial drain to host cities due to reasons like over-spent.
 Policing- Polices play bigger role in making event successful as consist essential
elements which helps to attract audience toward event. Right Policies and strategies are
places in the plan helps to create strong formation setup for organizing events. These
policies can be fruitful for the organizers and the host cities as they support plan for
successful implantation. For example, using sustainable plan for conducting events.
From sports to social capital, impact of hosting mega events has potential to build
capitals by promoting social interactions in hosting countries (Perić, 2018). These mega
tournaments bring changes in policies of transport, housing and accommodation as these
economic factors are impacted while hosting events. Land, housings and
accommodations change due to shift in economic rates as international crowd attend
these events.
It helps in sharing networks and share values results in generating social capital, by
hosting world-cups as it brings people from all over globe. Bidding to host mega sports brings
positive response from public, because it helps in economic growth in form of infrastructure
legacies and promoted goodwill.
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CONCLUSION
The report has been summarized, hosting world-cups impact on economic factors and
contributing in the growth and development of the countries. The economic perspective
clarified, job creations due to raise in occupancy in every industry contributing in these events.
Increase in infrastructure attract new investment plans and people on the international level,
which ultimately profits host countries. In addition to economic perceptive World-cups brings
future trade to the host cities. Furthermore, study examine environmental impacts of organizing
World-cup in negative aspects such as carbon footprints and pollutions. On the positive side it
helps to regenerate the opportunities for host countries. At the end of the report social
perspective is explained having positive and negative impact such as social cohesion, moral and
entrainment. Enlightened the impact of these events changing in the policies which are another
big aspect of hosting world-cups in different counties.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Present report is about world-cups hosting which impacting on various element like
economic, environment and social perceptive. These elements together can either helps to
generate profit or created huge losses to the hosting countries. Organizers of these events need to
work on multiple areas, need to improvise these different factors which will help to maximize
the benefit of hosting these events. These recommendations will also help in minimizing
challenges in order to host these events.
1. Economically, using cost effective plans for hosting the event will help in generating
profits in short-term and long term activities. For example, strict stadium guideline
creating based on the cost effective will help to host an event systematically (Savadogo
and Beziat, 2021). It will help to protect against huge cost bearings and will ultimately
allow to maximize the profits margins. Attracting investment will greatly promote
development in the city. Organizers need to introduce effective plan, for host cities
which will help them to attract new and audience.
2. The recommendation in order to Environmental perceptive which will help to save the
environments from pollution. If the world-cup organizers will support sustainable ways
in organizing the event, this initiative will lead for gaining trust and this factor will add
value to and the event (Wallstam, Ioannides and Pettersson, 2020). It will help to attract
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investors and audience for event which are using more sustainable way to save the
environment from pollutions like carbon footprints in the environment. Examples for
avoiding waste and reduce non-sustainable options are such as using reusable glassware.
Plastic straws replace with paper and wood and recyclable cardboard container for the
event. Using sustainable plan for entire event can be cost bearable but it's outcome will
add value to the event and establish environmental legacy which will benefit the host
country in future investments. Hosting country will gain media attention, tourists and
audience attention.
3. Organizers need to take initiative in creating social capital, by introducing various
techniques and factors like corporate social responsibilities. It will help in creating trust
and values from tourist ends for the world cup (Wise and Harris, 2017). If these events
are based on framework involving social factors, tourist coming in the cities will be able
to get best out of event. Corporate social responsibilities will help societies to create
social interactions, which will helpful to the tourist, as social capital is an outcome of
effective communication and it will help in creating human values.
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