There has never been a large-scale study of the sports economy in Taiwan. The main reason is that the industry is too small, or there is no sports industry at all, so it has not been able to attract economists to take an interest in studying the sports industry in Taiwan. A few years ago, when the Department of Economics at Soochow University, Professor Cheng Cheng-ping and I published a use of performance analysis tools in economics thesis "Taiwan's twenty-three counties and cities in the sports performance analysis - the National Games as an example," to analyze the counties and cities * * * * sports investment and the performance of the National Games medals between the relationship between the circle of sports academics in Taiwan, only the study of sports management and few sports economic research to persuade * * * generous allocation of sports budgets in order to * * * * the sports industry in Taiwan.
These are the first time I've seen the world's most popular sports event, and it's been a long time since I've seen the world's most popular sports event, the first time I've seen the world's most popular sports event.
In recent years, the number of cities bidding to host the Olympics and the soccer World Cup has dropped dramatically, and the world's economic downturn has certainly had an impact. What's more, many studies have shown that countries *** and Olympic committees have adopted the method of ex-ante estimation, and have found PR firms to produce a bunch of beautiful figures, but an ex-post study on the Olympics and soccer World Cups from 1990 to 2010 concludes that they haven't produced any long-term economic benefits. A post-event study of the Olympic Games and soccer World Cups from 1990 to 2010 concluded that no long-term economic benefits were generated. So if the promised benefits almost never materialize, why do so many countries still try to host? The book puts forward a strong argument: hosting the games requires physical construction, and only rich consortiums have the business opportunity to build, which means that the benefits are earned by the rich, and because the budget is diverted to construction, the welfare of the middle and lower classes is sidelined, and the poor are the ones who suffer. What's more, the debt incurred will be borne by the middle and lower classes because the income of the salaried class is transparent and can be taxed by the *** to cover the financial loopholes.
For five consecutive years, from 2008 to 2012, I organized a team to go to Athens to participate in the Athens Seven-Day Race, which is one of the 2004 Athens Olympic venues, which built multiple arenas on the old Athens airport: basketball, archery, softball, etc., all of which were unused after the Olympic games, and hired a group of security guards to protect the Nova site. I can't say for sure if the dorms we used were utilized at other times, but every year we went, they were empty and the equipment was deteriorating. Greece has not been able to take off economically because of the Olympics, and the country's economic crisis has been in the international news a lot in the past few years. The 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada, took thirty years to pay off the debt, and presumably the debt incurred by Greece for hosting the Olympics will take even longer to be paid off, because of the constant creation of new debt for the maintenance of the venues.
The author analyzes the inputs and benefits of each country's inputs and outputs with an economics input/output model, and finds that the original boasted benefits have not been realized, especially in the case of tourism revenue, which is often exaggerated, with the Athens Olympics predicting 105,000 people, and the result that there were actually only 14,000, with the rest of the tournament-related players, coaches, and officials. In 2008, the number of Chinese tourists at the Beijing Olympics was 6.8 percent less than the previous year, because everyone thought it would be difficult to book flights and hotel rooms, and the prices would be so high that they would end up watching the TV broadcasts at home. 2014 Brazil Soccer World Cup, the people of South America were crazy about soccer, and a lot of fans came from neighboring countries, but the result was that because of the lack of money in their pockets, most of them slept on beaches, in public places, in trailers, and did not consume much, which did not help the Brazilian economy. I'm relieved to see that Kaohsiung has been encouraged to host the 2016 IAU Asia and Oceania Cup 24-hour tournaments, and I'm always being asked to explain how it will benefit Kaohsiung's tourism industry. Honestly, we can't figure out how much an Asian Championship with only a few hundred participants will help Kaohsiung's tourism industry. As a matter of fact, we should all abandon this idea that "sports events can benefit the tourism industry". How can we expect a super-marathon to have a tourism benefit when there is no evidence that the Olympics will even be held? Why not turn to think about the benefits of hosting the Asian Championships for Kaohsiung's sports culture, such as expanding the public's sporting horizons, so that everyone recognizes that road running is no longer just a marathon, but also a more challenging and more restorative nature of the sport of ultra-marathon. In addition, it also allows local organizers to learn how to organize ultra-marathons, and then hold regular annual venue ultra-marathons, so that the type of ultra-marathon in Kaohsiung to take root, rather than only Taipei has a 24-hour race.
Mr. Leung said that the main reason for us to fight for the World Games and other large-scale competitions is not for economic reasons, but for "international visibility" and "to fight for international recognition", but honestly, from my experience in international sports, I really don't think that organizing international competitions can do much for "international visibility" and "international recognition", and that people will forget about the World Games in Taipei in a year or two after the competitions. A high level of athletic performance is the guarantee of international visibility. A 100-meter flyer, Bert, has made the small country of Jamaica well known to the world, and Japan's high level of running strength has made the international marathon community quickly accept the Tokyo Marathon as one of the world's six major competitions, rather than the multi-billion-dollar Lanzhou Marathon in China. In other words, it's better to spend tens of billions of dollars on developing high-level athletes than organizing sporting events. Take this money to plan the training of high-level athletes can affect the next few decades of the structure, far more than ten days to burn all the budget and leave a bunch of mosquitoes Hall to ask for maintenance fees of large-scale races, are more "economic efficiency".
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