The seminar The impact of big sport events on tourism was held on 2 October 2014 at the National Stadium in Warsaw as a back-to-back event to the 94th OECD Tourism Committee session. The seminar was attended by more than 150 representatives of local authorities, tourism industry and scientific community.

During the seminar several case studies including 2012 London Olympic Games, UEFA EURO 2012™ in Poland, Australian Open and Austrialan Tour of British & Irish Lions were presented. Additionally, a panel discussion with representatives of Hungary, Japan, Poland, Portugal and the United States was held under the topic: Costs and benefits of big sport events for tourism.

Thank you for your participation.

Download presentations from the seminar:

Tom Jenkins, ETOA 

Mikołaj Piotrowski, PL2012+, Poland

Paul Wojciechowski, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia

Cathy Page, Department of Media, Culture and Sport, United Kingdom

For photos click here.