Ebook: Local Development Benefits from Staging Global Events.
Author: OECD
- Tags: Cities and towns, City improvement, Sports, Tourism and city planning, Economic development, Civic improvement, Economic development -- Economic aspects
- Series: Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED)
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- City: Paris
- Language: English
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When international events as OIympic Games, EXPOs, cultural festivals, and political summits are hosted well, they become a catalyst for local development and global reach. This book identifies how international events work as a trigger for local development and what hosting cities and nations can do to ensure that positive local development is realised. It reviews experience from more than 30 cities and nations and Read more...