Hosting the world’s biggest event provides a unique learning opportunity for the multiple stakeholders involved, and host cities have a unique learning opportunity to maximise.
Academic discourse on event legacy (Andranovich et al., 2001 Cashman, 2003, 2006 Getz, 2007 Leopkey, 2009 Hall, 1997 Masterman, 2009 Moragas, Kennett and Puig, 2003 Preuss, 2007) has demonstrated how the success of event legacy relies on a combination of tangible and intangible elements. A call is made for increased awareness and strategic planning for Olympic knowledge legacy within host cities.ĪB - © Valerie Viehoff and Gavin Poynter 2015. This exploratory chapter focuses on how learning can take place as part of the process of staging an event how current learning methods and mechanisms are applied in the case of the Olympic Games and identifies how host public sector actors are missing a learning opportunity as major stakeholders.
N2 - © Valerie Viehoff and Gavin Poynter 2015. T1 - Intangible learning legacies of the olympic games: Opportunities for host cities