Purpose This paper aims to examine participatory sport event organizers’ perspectives on potential connections between their events and tourism and destination marketing outcomes. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study entailed in-depth interviews with participatory sport event...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how non-host cities strategically plan to leverage pre-Games training for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games to maximize benefits to the city. Design/methodology/approach Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with key tourism and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate why and how universities in the Glasgow region sought to leverage the 2014 Commonwealth Games to achieve their own benefits. Design/methodology/approach An in-depth qualitative case study, utilising documentary evidence and in-depth interviews,...