Executive Summary

This book identifies how staging international events works as a trigger for local development, and what hosting cities and nations can do to ensure that a positive local legacy and wider benefits are realised. It reviews experience from more than 30 cities/nations and it looks forwards to future events yet to be hosted. Staging international events works as a catalyst for local development, but hosting cities and nations have to take precise and dedicated steps to ensure that a positive local legacy is realised. Whilst the hosting of major international events can be seen as an end in itself, it is also an unrivalled opportunity to get other things done by a nation or a city.