Sport, Tourism and the Olympic Games

Call for Papers

Journal of Sport & Tourism

Special issue:  Sport, Tourism and the Olympic Games

Deadline for submission:  8 January 2010

Purpose of the special issue:

Every four years the gaze of the public around the world turns towards the Olympic Games and the level of media interest generated by the event provides opportunities for the host city to raise its profile as a tourist destination. This moment in the sun can be contrasted with ongoing investment associated with the bidding process, Games planning and legacy management. The complexity of economic, social, environmental and political dimensions has produced analyses and reports of research in journals across a number of disciplines and the relationship between tourism and the Olympic Games is gaining wider recognition.  The status of the Birds Nest stadium in Beijing as an important domestic tourist attraction and the detailed plans to monitor the tourism impact of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are noteworthy but it is also timely to place these recent developments in a broader context.

This special issue seeks high quality papers that address any issue concerning the relationship between tourism and the Olympic Games. Papers can be conceptual or empirical and indicative topics include:
•    The Olympics and tourism demand
•    Adaptive practices of transportation systems and hospitality organisations during the Games
•    Leverage practices to influence the spatial and temporal impacts of the Games on tourism

Requests for further information and expressions of interest should be directed to the Guest Editor for this special issue, Professor Graham Brown.

Manuscripts should be sent electronically as an eMail attachment directly to graham.brown@unisa.edu.au .  All submissions will be subject to JS&T’s standard double-blind peer review process.  Authors should prepare manuscripts according to JS&T’s instructions for authors available on the journal webpages: www.tandf/journals/titles/14775085.asp

Special Issue Contact Details:

Graham Brown
School of Management,
University of South Australia
graham.brown@unisa.edu.au

Olympic Reform: A Ten-Year Review

Olympic Reform: A Ten-Year Review

The University of Toronto is proud to host a conference on Olympic Reform: A Ten-Year Review from May 18-20, 2009.  Information about the conference and online registration can be found on our website,
http://www.ac-fpeh.com/Olympic_Reform

Early registration rates are good until April 19.

Accommodations information for our conference, including a  special  $32/person/night rate at the University of Toronto’s New College, can be found online.  The conference has also reserved a limited number of  rooms at the nearby Holiday Inn Toronto Midtown which will be held  until April 18.

Keynote speakers and panelists include

• Jean-Loup Chappelet, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration,  University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Giovanni Di Cola, International Labour Organization
• Andrew Jennings, author of The Great Olympic Swindle, The New Lords of the Rings and Foul! The Secret World of FIFA
• John MacAloon, University of Chicago
• Ann Peel, Athletes’ CAN
• Richard W. Pound, International Olympic Committee
• Sam Ramsamy, International Olympic Committee

Questions regarding the conference can be directed to Heather Dichter at heather.dichter@utoronto.ca

OLYMPIC METTLE: Selected Resources on the Beijing Games from the Carnegie Council

OLYMPIC METTLE:
Selected Resources on the Beijing Games from the Carnegie Council

With the start of the Summer Olympics drawing near, an expert panel met recently at the Carnegie Council to discuss “Olympic Mettle: Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games.”

The event featured scholar and journalist Ian Buruma; General Electric’s vice president of corporate citizenship Bob Corcoran; Qi Qianjin of the Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the UN; and Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch and editor of China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges. Journalist Thomas Crampton joined the group via video from Hong Kong, and Devin Stewart, director of the Council’s Global Policy Innovations program, moderated.

The very fact that the Chinese government permitted one of their officials to take part in a public discussion like this shows how much China has opened up in the last 30 years. Topics included the challenges corporations face in operating ethically and yet staying competitive, and a debate on whether durable good government and the exercise of human rights are possible in systems where officials are not democratically elected.

This event was part of the Carnegie Council’s Workshops for Ethics in Business series, which brings together top corporations and NGOs to share best practices in addressing ethical problems that organizations face. It was sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton’s strategy+business magazine, with additional support from Eli Lilly and New York University’s Center for Global Affairs.

To see a video of the Olympic Mettle event, click here

To listen to it, click here

To read an event summary with video clips, click here

To read the entire transcript, click here

To see Thomas Crampton’s video in its entirety, click here

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Be sure to check out the Policy Innovations “Fairer Globalization” blog for frequent posts about the Games and other China issues.

Please see these additional resources on the Games (in chronological order):

One World, Many Slogans
Christina L. Madden, Carnegie Council
Just as China is using the Olympic Games to improve its image, some companies are using the Games to improve their corporate responsibility profiles. (Policy Innovations, April 4, 2008)

A Wolf in Monk’s Clothing?
Matthew Hennessey, Carnegie Council
He has reverent followers around the world, but inside China the Dalai Lama is not universally loved. Hennessy sat down with a number of young Chinese-American students to investigate these attitudes. (Policy Innovations, April 3, 2008)

Beijing Serves Up Sports Etiquette
Abigail Paris, Carnegie Council
China is training its spectators in cheering, clapping, and how to handle the occasional volleyball that flies into the stands. Mannered reactions are the goal—China is gunning for a perfect ten in Olympic hosting. (Policy Innovations, April 2, 2008)

Moral Medals: The Summer Games Will be Won Off the Field
Sacha Tessier-Stall, Nin-Hai Tseng, Carnegie Council
With violence in Darfur and Tibet, competition at the Olympics this summer will be political as well as athletic. (Policy Innovations, April 1, 2008)

Will China “Lose” the 2008 Olympics?
Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group
The Chinese Communist Party hoped to use the Games to showcase the country’s emergence as a dynamic, modern nation. But as China’s leaders begin final preparations for next August, they may be wondering if hosting the event was such a good idea after all. (Policy Innovations, November 29, 2007)

Next Year In Beijing?
Madeleine Lynn, Carnegie Council
When will China publicly acknowledge what really happened on June 4, 1989? Just as in Taiwan, change in China must surely come from within. But the rest of the world has a role to play also, and the Beijing Games provide an opportunity to do so. (Carnegie Ethics Online, June 4, 2007)

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We appreciate your support.

The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System (2008, May)

The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System
The governance of world sport
Series: Global Institutions
Jean-Loup Chappelet, Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, Lausanne, Switzerland
This book provides, in a clear and readable form, an informative and fascinating account of the institutional history of the Olympics: its history, its organization and its actors.
Part of the popular Global Institutions series, this book is based on a forty year observation of the Olmpic Movement and contains information on the International Olympic Committee that has never been published before.
May 2008: 216×138: 224pp
Hb: 978-0-415-43167-5: £65.00
Pb: 978-0-415-43168-2: £14.99

International Society of Olympic Historians

The ISOH has recently started a blog:

http://blog.isoh.org/

Journalists at the Beijing 2008 Olympics

In an attempt to start assembling journalists that will be in Beijing, I’ve put together a Facebook group to share impressions, understanding and knowledge about orientation. If you’re going and you’re covering the Games as a journalist, please join the group:

 http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10776325266&ref=mf

Andy Miah
email@andymiah.net

Beijing 2008 Torch Relay Route

Having just watched the lighting ceremony in Olympia, I wanted to find a brief indication of the route, in part to become more familiar with regions of China, but also to record details of the coverage. It’s also one of the most remarkable cultural events of the Olympic programme.

Date Arrival
Mar-24 Lighting Ceremony at Olympia – Reporters without Frontiers protest in stadium and Tibet protestors in Olympia
March 24–29 Torch Relay in Greece
Mar-30 Greece Hand-over Ceremony
Mar-31 Beijing
Apr-01 Heading to Almaty
Apr-02 Almaty
Apr-03 Istanbul
Apr-05 St. Petersburg
Apr-06 London
Apr-07 Paris
Apr-09 San Francisco
Apr-11 Buenos Aires
Apr-13 Dar es Salaam
Apr-14 Muscat
Apr-16 Islamabad
Apr-17 New Delhi
Apr-19 Bangkok
Apr-21 Kuala Lumpur
Apr-22 Jakarta
Apr-24 Canberra
Apr-26 Nagano
Apr-27 Seoul
Apr-28 Pyongyang
Apr-29 Ho Chi Minh City
May-02 Hong Kong
May-03 Macao
Hainan
May-04 Sanya
May-05 Wuzhishan
May-05 Wanning
May-06 Haikou
Guangdong
May-07 Guangzhou
May-08 Shenzhen
May-09 Huizhou
May-10 Shantou
Fujian
May-11 Fuzhou
May-12 Quanzhou
May-12 Xiamen
May-13 Longyan
Jiangxi
May-14 Ruijin
May-15 Jinggangshan
May-16 Nanchang
Zhejiang
May-17 Wenzhou
May-17 Shaoxing
May-18 Hangzhou
May-19 Ningbo
May-19 Jiaxing
May 20-21 Shanghai
Jiangsu
May-22 Suzhou
May-22 Nantong
May-23 Taizhou
May-23 Yangzhou
May-24 Nanjing
Anhui
May-25 Hefei
May-27 Huainan
May-27 Wuhu
May-28 Jixi
May-28 Huangshan
Hubei
May-29 Wuhan
May-30 Yichang
May-31 Jingzhou
Hunan
Jun-01 Yueyang
Jun-02 Changsha
Jun-03 Shaoshan
Guangxi
Jun-04 Guilin
Jun-05 Nanning
Jun-06 Baise
Yunnan
Jun-07 Kunming
Jun-08 Lijing
Jun-09 Xamgyi’nyilha
Guizhou
Jun-10 Guiyang
Jun-11 Kaili
Jun-12 Zunyi
June 13-14 Chongqing
Sichuan
Jun-15 Guang’an
Jun-15 Mianyang
Jun-16 Guanghan
Jun-16 Leshan
Jun-17 Zigong
Jun-17 Yibin
Jun-18 Chengdu
Tibet
Jun-19 Shannan Diqu
June 20-21 Lhasa
Qinghai
Jun-22 Golmud
Jun-23 Qinghai Hu
Jun-24 Xining
Xinjiang
Jun-25 Urumqi
Jun-26 Kashi
Jun-27 Shihezi
Jun-27 Changji
Gansu
May-28 Dunhuang
Jun-28 Jiangyuguan
Jun-29 Jiuquan
Jun-30 Tianshui
Jun-30 Lanzhou
Ningxia
Jul-02 Zhongwei
Jul-03 Wuzhong
Jul-04 Yinchuan
Shannxi
Jul-05 Yan’an
Jul-06 Yangling
Jul-06 Xianyang
Jul-07 Xi’an
Shanxi
Jul-08 Yuncheng
Jul-08 Pingyao
Jul-09 Taiyuan
Jul-10 Datong
Inner Mongolia
Jul-11 Hohhot
Jul-12 Ordos
Jul-12 Baotou
Jul-13 Chifeng
Heilongjiang
Jul-14 Qiqihar
Jul-15 Daqing
Jul-16 Harbin
Jilin
Jul-17 Songyuan
Jul-17 Changchun
Jul-18 Jilin
Jul-19 Yanji
Liaoning
Jul-20 Shenyang
Jul-21 Benxi
Jul-21 Liaoyang
Jul-21 Anshan
Jul-22 Dalian
Shandong
Jul-23 Yantai
Jul-23 Weihai
Jul-24 Qingdao
Jul-24 Rizhao
Jul-25 Linyi
Jul-25 Qufu
Jul-25 Taian
Jul-26 Jinan
Henan
Jul-28 Shangqiu
Jul-28 Kaifeng
Jul-29 Zhengzhou
Jul-30 Luoyang
Jul-31 Anyang
Hebei
Aug-01 Shijiazhuang
Aug-02 Qinhuangdao
Aug-03 Tangshan
August 4-5 Tianjin
August 6-8 Beijing

Olympic Legacies (29-30 March, 2008, Oxford)

Olympic Legacies
29-30 March 2008
St Antony’s College, Oxford
South Asian Studies Programme
Asian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford
St Antony’s College, Oxford, OX2 6JF, UK · Tel: (01865) 274559 ·
Fax: (01865) 274559, Email: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: St Antony’s College, Oxford, La Trobe University, Melbourne and Taylor & Francis Group.

DAY 1

8.30-9.15 am: Breakfast at St John’s College

9.45-10.30 am: Registration at St Antony’s College

10.30-10.40 am: Inaugural comments – David Washbrook (St. Antony’s College, Oxford)

10.40-10.50 am: J.A. Mangan (Founding and Executive Academic Editor, ‘International Journal of the History of Sport’)

IJHS-25 plus

10.50-11.00 am: Jonathan Manley (Publisher, Taylor and Francis Sports Journals) – The Evolution of Information and Communication in Sport Studies

11.00 am-12.00 pm: First Keynote Address – John J. MacAloon (University of Chicago) – ‘Legacy’ and the Dilemma of the Olympic Movement

Discussant: Brian Stoddart (La Trobe University, Melbourne)

12.00-12.15 pm: Coffee Break

12.15-1.30 pm: Panel 1 – Olympic Legacies: Overview

Bruce Kidd (University of Toronto) – The Ideological Legacies of the Olympic Games

Hans M. Westerbeek (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) – Amsterdam 1928 – Amsterdam 2028: On past and future legacies

Jean-Loup Chappelet, (Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP), Lausanne) – Olympic Environmental  Concerns as a Legacy of the Winter Games
Discussant: David Washbrook (St. Antony’s College, Oxford)

1.30-2.30 pm: Lunch

2.30-3.45 pm: Panel 2 – Olympic Legacies Overview

John Hughson (University of Central Lancashire) – The Legacy of Olympic Game’s Films: The Case of Melbourne 1956

Joseph Maguire (Loughborough University) – Branding and Consumption in the IOCs ‘Celebrate Humanity’ Advertisements: Hidden Messages

Mark Dyreson, and Matthew Llewellyn (Penn State University) – The Olympic Legacy of Los Angeles

Discussant: Bruce Kidd (University of Toronto)

3.45-4.00 pm: Tea break

4.00-5.15 pm: Panel 3 – Far Eastern Olympic Issues

Dong Jinxia (Peking University) and J.A. Mangan (Founding and Executive Academic Editor, ‘International Journal of the History of Sport’) – Beijing Olympics Legacies:  Certain Intentions and Certain  and Uncertain Outcomes

Dolores Martinez (School of Oriental and African Studies) – The Legacy of the 1964 Tokyo Olympiad

Brian Bridges (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) – The Seoul Olympics: Economic Miracle Meets the World

Discussant: John MacAloon (University of Chicago)

6.30-7.00 pm: T&F Reception and Release of Ceremonial First Day Cover specially designed for the conference by Terry Mitchell of Chapman and Mitchell Covers.

7.00 pm: Conference Dinner
DAY 2

8.30-9.15 am: Breakfast at St John’s College

10.00-10.15 am: Tea and Coffee

10.15 am-12.00 pm: Panel 4 – South Asian Olympic and (Imperial) Issues

Ronojoy Sen (Associate Editor, Times of India) – Playing Under Empire: Indian Sportspersons and Questions of Identity in Colonial India
Boria Majumdar (La Trobe University, Melbourne) – Games of Self-Respect: A Colony at the Olympics
Nalin Mehta (Deputy News Editor, Times Now Television, India) – The Golden Legacy: Hockey and India’s Olympic Encounter

Kausik Bandyopadhyay (Maulana Azad Institute of Advanced Studies, Kolkata) – Uncovering the Sleeping Giant Syndrome: India in Olympic Football

Discussant: J. A. Mangan (Founding and Executive Academic Editor, ‘International Journal of the History of Sport’)

12.00-12.15 pm: Tea Break

12.15-1.15 pm: Panel 5 – Western Olympic Issues

Gavin Poynter (University of East London) – London 2012: The Regeneration Game(s)

Charles Davis – Searching for the Greatest Olympic Performances, Using a Complete Summer Olympics Database

Discussant: Mark Dyreson (Penn State University)

1.15-2.30 pm: Lunch

2.30-3.30 pm: 2nd Keynote Address – Malcolm Speed (Chief Executive, International Cricket Council) – Cricket and the Olympics: A potential legacy

3.30-3.45 pm: Tea Break

3.45-4.45 pm: Final Keynote Address – Brian Stoddart (Former Vice Chancellor, La Trobe University, Melbourne) – The Olympic Movement and Geopolitical Legacies.
4.45-5.15 pm: Concluding Session
4.45-5.00 pm: David Washbrook (St Antony’s College, Oxford) – Summing up
5.00-5.15 pm: Hans Westerbeek (La Trobe University, Melbourne) – Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks

Owning the Olympics (new publication)

New book with my following paper:

Miah, A., B. Garcia, et al. (2008). ‘We are the Media’: Non-Accredited Media & Citizen Journalists at the Olympic Gams. Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China. M. E. Price and D. Dayan. Michigan, University of Michigan Press: 320-345.

Owning the Olympics
Narratives of the New China

Monroe E. Price and Daniel Dayan, Editors

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About the Book

“A major contribution to the study of global events in times of global media. Owning the Olympics tests the possibilities and limits of the concept of ‘media events’ by analyzing the mega-event of the information age: the Beijing Olympics. . . . A good read from cover to cover.”
—Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Asian/Middle Eastern Cultures & Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University

From the moment they were announced, the Beijing Games were a major media event and the focus of intense scrutiny and speculation. In contrast to earlier such events, however, the Beijing Games are also unfolding in a newly volatile global media environment that is no longer monopolized by broadcast media. The dramatic expansion of media outlets and the growth of mobile communications technology have changed the nature of media events, making it significantly more difficult to regulate them or control their meaning. This volatility is reflected in the multiple, well-publicized controversies characterizing the run-up to Beijing 2008. According to many Western commentators, the People’s Republic of China seized the Olympics as an opportunity to reinvent itself as the “New China”—a global leader in economics, technology, and environmental issues, with an improving human-rights record. But China’s maneuverings have also been hotly contested by diverse global voices, including prominent human-rights advocates, all seeking to displace the official story of the Games.

Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from Chinese studies, human rights, media studies, law, and other fields, Owning the Olympics reveals how multiple entities—including the Chinese Communist Party itself—seek to influence and control the narratives through which the Beijing Games will be understood.

http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=308803

SYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008 (Beijing, June-July)

http://www.mediartchina.org/introduction

National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)
No. 1 Wusi Street Dongcheng District
Beijing 100010 P.R.China

Jun 10, 2008 -July 3, 2008

During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the National Art Museum of China will present “SYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008” in its current location at the center of Beijing. NAMOC is the only national art museum in China that is dedicated to research, presentation and promotion of modern and contemporary arts. “SYNTHETIC TIMES – Media Art China 2008”, scheduled from June 10th to July 3rd, will be one of the most important cultural events leading up to the Olympic Games in Beijing.

The exhibition will occupy approximately 4500 square meters (48000 square feet) of the museum gallery space and an additional outdoor area of ca. 2000 square meters (32000 square feet). The internationally recognized Dutch architecture firm NOX/Lars Spuybroek will architecturally transform the entire first floor of the museum in response to the nature of the works on display. A full-color catalogue will be co-published by NAMOC and the MIT Press to accompany the opening (with international distribution). An online forum dedicated to the discourse of the respective exhibition themes and beyond will be created prior to the opening of the event. A pre-Exhibition symposium will be held in New York City in collaboration with MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) and other major cultural and educational institutions. The forum and the subsequent symposia will be moderated by a group of distinguished scholars and media arts professionals. Selected discussion essays will be included in the catalogue. Meanwhile, a number of satellite exhibition venues have been planed within the greater Beijing art community, engaging prominent galleries of the booming Beijing art scene. In addition, a number of special evening events during the opening days of the Exhibition are conceived to celebrate countries with significant contribution to the development of media art and culture.

Synthetic Times – Media Art China 2008 will showcase both established and emerging artists from approximately thirty countries, and over fifty media art installation works will be on view along with performances, workshops, presentations and discussion panels. To complement the theme exhibitions, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will contribute a special screening program consisting of seminal video art works. Ars Electronica is set to present the award winning Animation Festival while European Media Art Festival will bring in an edition of International Emerging Video Art. The Exhibition is envisaged as a landmark event in the history of contemporary Chinese art dedicated to embracing the most innovative artistic production and theorization to date, and aspiring to foster and advance new modes of thinking and novel ways of artistic engagement in an increasingly technologically immersed society and global cultural landscape, resonating with the leitmotifs of “Cultural Olympics” and “Hi-Tech Olympics” put forward by the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Supported by the Chinese government, international cultural foundations as well as embassies from the participating countries, renowned museums and media art institutions worldwide will collaborate with NAMOC to produce the Exhibition and its related events.

Media Art China is conceived as a brand name, which will take on the form of either Biennale or Triennial in the future.

http://www.namoc.org/namoc/about/