Hosting the FIFA World Cup™ Germany 2006
- 8 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Convention & Event Tourism
- Vol. 8 (2) , 57-78
- https://doi.org/10.1300/j452v08n02_04
Abstract
Mega sport events, like the Olympic Games™ and the FIFA World Cup™, are the most important international tourism events. Although both events have a high attractiveness to international tourism, they are very different with regard to organization and hosting. On the one hand, there are the multi-sport competitions within the Olympic Games™, which are hosted 16 days within a national metropolis. On the other hand, there is the single-sport competition within the FIFA World Cup™, which is hosted one month nationwide in 10 to 12 major cities. Due to pre-event infrastructure investments as well as tourism consumption during the event phase, the regional economic impact consequentially spreads much more all over the country. Estimating these regional economic impacts normally is a difficult task. This paper presents some estimates of potential overall and regional economic effects on the German economy due to hosting the FIFA World Cup™ 2006. The results have been prepared using the dynamic interindus...Keywords
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