Spreading tourists around host countries of mega sport events: A strategy to overcome overtourism in host cities

Rami Mhanna is a Senior Lecturer in Event Management in the Department of Applied Management Studies at the University of Winchester. Rami’s research interests focus on the Olympic studies, leveraging legacies of international sport event and sport tourism. He received PhD from Bournemouth University, exploring and critically evaluating factors contributing to leveraging legacies from sport events over the long-term in different host destinations. His recent work has explored a number of research themes connected with the London 2012 Olympic Games such as the long-term tourism legacy, international business legacy, sponsorship and the role of media in leveraging legacy outcomes from such international sport events. Rami designed, led and delivered leadership and management education across undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education levels at a number of UK institutions. He has active interests in sport, tourism and events education.

Adam Blake is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Bournemouth University and Head of the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research. He is a specialist in computable general equilibrium modelling and has used this modelling technique to examine the economic interrelationships between tourism and other sectors of the economies of the UK, USA, Scotland, the Canary Islands, Malta, Cyprus, Mauritius and Brazil. His research has provided both theoretical advances and research-based evidence for government organisations.

Ian Jones is the Head of the Department of Sport and Physical Activity/Associate Professor in Sport at Bournemouth University. His areas of interest are sporting identities, sport fan behaviour, the phenomenology of well-being and research methods for sport. He is author of Research Methods for Sport Studies, which has been translated into several languages with a third edition published in 2015, and Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity (with Lorraine Brown and Immy Holloway).