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Peak event: the rise, crisis and potential decline of the Olympic Games and the World Cup

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2023
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Müller, M., Gogishvili, D., Wolfe, S. D., Gaffney, C., Hug, M., & Leick, A. (2023). Peak event: the rise, crisis and potential decline of the Olympic Games and the World Cup. Tourism Management, 95, 104657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104657

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This paper tracks the growth of two of the largest tourist events: the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup, drawing on a dataset containing all events between 1964 and 2018. Overall, the size of the three events has grown about 60-fold over the past 50 years, thirteen times faster than world GDP. We identify an S-shaped growth curve and four different growth periods, with an emergent crisis phase in the late 2010s that may have brought us to ‘peak event’ – the point at which these events have reached their largest size. Outlining

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95

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104657

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Strategy and Management, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management, Transportation, Development

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English

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2023-04-01

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2023-02-15

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0261-5177

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99 since deposited on 2023-02-15
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152 since deposited on 2023-02-15
Acq. date: 2025-11-13

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Müller, M., Gogishvili, D., Wolfe, S. D., Gaffney, C., Hug, M., & Leick, A. (2023). Peak event: the rise, crisis and potential decline of the Olympic Games and the World Cup. Tourism Management, 95, 104657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104657

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