Pre-event Assessment Of The Economic And Social Impacts Of The Mediterranean Games Oran 2022 And Their Role In Promoting Sport Tourism

Abstract

Large-scale sport events are considered to be key opportunity to promote sport tourism in the region, on this basis, the object of this study aims to identify and estimate the expected economic and social impacts of the Mediterranean Games of Oran in 2022 in order to optimize them and permit a better event experience for the participants, spectators and tourists as premises to promote sport tourism in the long term. For this purpose, we applied (Kim et al, 2014) model on a sample composed of 79 sport and Olympics experts; and we concluded that the positive impacts are more susceptible to occur indicating an optimistic prospection on the games events and their material and moral legacy in both phases: short and long-terms. On the other hand, negative impacts were evaluated to be common short term consequences that the history of games organization could not prevent.