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The Interactions And Influences Between 2008 Beijing Olympic Games And Non-host Cites

Posted on:2008-03-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360215483060Subject:Humanities and sociology
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With the thousands of years of history development, ancient Greek Olympic Movement has evolved into modern form. And modern Olympic Games is sweeping throughout every corner of the world. The Olympic Games is not only a sports activity, but also a complex economic and social phenomenon. It is a golden opportunity to the host country and host city to promote the development of economy and society, enhance the international status and image, and strengthen the competitiveness. According to recent several Olympic Games, fundamental changes had occurred in the host cities by hosting the Olympics. Meanwhile, the Olympic Games also played an extremely important role in the host countries. Taking a broad view on previous Olympic Games, the host countries have obtained benefits more or less in different aspects. Hosting an Olympic Games has become a powerful driving force for promoting the development of urban economy and social culture. Therefore, all governments regard hosting an Olympic Games as the key strategic measure of city reconstruction, and economic and cultural development.Since the late 1980s, the influences of Olympic Games to the host city and host country have increased rapidly. These influences does not only been confined in the single host city, but also radiate and effect other cities of the host country more or less in a long-term periods. Beijing's winning the bid of the 2008 Olympics brought a golden opportunity for China and gave fresh impetus to her. The Olympics Games is a big affair of the whole country.Present study takes Shanghai, Qinghuangdao, Qingdao, Dalian and Guilin as examples, combining sociology, economics, anthropology, and theories of city development and municipal development strategies of the five cities as supporting theories, considering their contribution to the Olympics, to explore the economic, social and cultural values and influences of the Olympic Games to the modernization processes of the non-host cities. And then analyzes the regulations and practices which were proposed by these cities in order to stress their own advantages, serve the Olympic Games, integrate resources and interact with the Olympics. It is aimed at dissecting the inter-influences between the Olympic Games and non-host cities on an objective and all-round perspective, with a hope to offer some directions, references and experiences to other cities and areas.This study combines theory and practice to research the inter-influence of Beijing Olympics and non-host cities systematically by integrating various resources and doing a contrastive analysis. The author ploughed through a lot of documents and materials. Field work, discussing with experts and theory analysis are also adopted in as needed. This paper is consisted of 3 parts: introduction, findings and analyses, and conclusions. The introduction summarizes the scope of the study, purpose and significance of the study, and the literature review. The findings and analyses include three sections: firstly, the author describes and analyzes the influences of modern Olympics to host country and city, and then makes a summarization; secondly, the author analyzes the economic values, social benefits and cultural communications brought by 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to the non-host cities; thirdly, the author make a in-depth studies on what economic, social and cultural interests the non-host cities get in the process of and after serving and interacting with the Olympics. The conclusions summarize the results of this research. Suggestions of how to interact with and serve for the Olympics, and hence to promote the competitiveness of the city are proposed: first of all, the government should strengthen the publicity of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and establish the Olympic environment; secondly, the non-host cities should aggressively respond to the call of"National Fitness and Olympic Counterparts"to promote the national fit-keeping program; thirdly, the cities should provide favorable conditions for participating and holding the games; lastly, they should get ready for tourism services to share the tourist flow of Beijing. It is hoped that this study will offer a theory reference to other non-host cities of China.
Keywords/Search Tags:Olympic Games, Non-host Cities, Inter-influence, Strategies
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