Indicators for measuring effectiveness and impact of international sporting events in Taiwan

Abstract

Sport event hosting is viewed as an important tool to create a tremendous impact upon humans, society, cities as well as nations. Hosting international sports events has been a long-standing national policy in Taiwan. Due to differences in the scale of the sport events, evaluating their impact may be required in order to tailor to the needs of the locality in terms of scope and context of the event impact assessment. Thus, this paper identifies suitable indicators for assessing the impact of international sports events in Taiwan through the Delphi study. Four scopes for measuring the impact are identified: sporting, economic, social and environmental impact. Specifically, sporting impact is viewed as the essential component for the local scenario. Also, some emerging indicators were unique and used to revise the context for measuring the event impact.

Keywords:

• impact study
• event management
• non-mega events
• hosting community

Acknowledgements

Here I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Dr. Laurence Chalip as well as the Delphi panellists for their assistance and participation

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [Y.H.], upon reasonable request.

Additional information

Funding

This project is partially funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology.