Journal of Yaşar University

Yazarlar: Ş. Mustafa Ersungur Merter AKINCI

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DOI:10.19168/jyu.83472

Anahtar Kelimeler:The Olympic Games,Regional Development,Survey Methods,Regression Analysis

Özet: Today, one of the main issues for governments is to initiate the policies which aims at reducing regional development disparities. As well as the region-spesific measures which was taken into account to eliminate these disparities, being held the large-scale sports events such as Olympic Games was pursued a goal and thus it was aimed at introducing the dynamics of regional development. It was thought that such organizations would create significant impacts on production, employment and national income and it was expressed that they would make an additional contribution to desired goal. In this respect, to determine the effects of the 2011 Universiade Winter Games on economy of Erzurum, a survey was conducted. With the help of the datas from the surveys, the current situation was displayed by being formed the frequency and percentage tables. Then, the regression analysis were applied to determine the effects of the Games on the economy. The results of the analysis showed that the Games, an important stimulus for the regional development, created the positive impacts on the regional employment, profit, production, capacity utilisation and national income.

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