CARNIVAL
Managing the Impacts of Mega-Events: Towards Sustainable Legacies
This EU-funded project looked at why the economic and social impacts of mega events are often not realized to their full potential. The project also examined best practice in creating sustainable impacts for mega-events using a trans-continental perspective and considered cultural and other contextual differences in the perception and management of impacts. The partnership created to conduct this research includes the United Kingdom, Brazil, the United States of America, South Africa, and Germany. Through examining past mega-events and attendance at current mega-events the project team provided a comprehensive view of constraining and enabling forces affecting the management of impacts of a variety of different types (sporting and non-sporting) of events. The results of this study provided a guide for governments and host cities to enable them to ensure that the investment in mega-events has real and long lasting positive impacts for a range of stakeholders, at the same time lowering negative impacts. This guide is useful at the bidding, planning and management stages of mega-events to ensure sustainability in the legacy of those events.
Project partners
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (South Africa)