Special Issue "Sustainability in the Sports Market and Olympic Games"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Eiji Yamamura
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Guest Editor
Seinan Gakuin University
Interests: behavioral economics; sports economics; gender difference; culture and society; social capital

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, government-enforced lockdowns have had tremendous impact on sporting events in many countries. The Tokyo Olympics have been postponed until July 2021, although it is unknown whether the Tokyo Olympics will be held in 2021. This will have inevitable impacts on the lives and training plans of the participating athletes. The Olympic Games, often politicized and commercialized, have generated great interest from researchers in this context.

Apart from the Olympics, various professional sports have cancelled games or held them without spectators. The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced not only the physical, but also the mental condition of athletes. Some of these effects may be lasting or persistent. From another perspective, sports fans may feel unhappy or upset due to the lack of games.

In terms of finance, COVID-19 has drastically reduced the revenues of professional sports, creating difficulties in managing professional sports teams. Players are more likely to be dismissed than ever before. The current difficulties professional sports are encountering raise new questions about the sustainability of the professional sports market. This Special Issue aims to cover various impacts of COVID-19 on sports markets.

Dr. Eiji Yamamura
Guest Editor

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The Impact of Postponing 2020 Tokyo Olympics on the Happiness of O-MO-TE-NA-SHI Workers in Tourism: A Consequence of COVID-19
Sustainability 2020, 12(19), 8168; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198168 - 03 Oct 2020
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Abstract
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The implications for industries related to the Olympics—tourism, hotels and restaurants, and others—are expected to be affected by reduced demand. Japanese workers in these industries were prepared to offer [...] Read more.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The implications for industries related to the Olympics—tourism, hotels and restaurants, and others—are expected to be affected by reduced demand. Japanese workers in these industries were prepared to offer their hospitality to visitors from around the world. They would be benefited not only by an increase in income but also in offering visitors a taste of Tokyo’s great hospitality if the Olympics had been held in 2020. However, postponement of the sporting event is likely to have a significant impact on their happiness level. We independently collected individual-level panel data from March to April 2020. In the survey, the respondents were asked about their happiness levels by choosing from 11 categories: 1 (very unhappy) and 11 (very happy). They were also asked about expected income changes from 2020 to 2021. Based on this, we examined the effect of postponement on happiness level and expected income change. The sample was divided into sub-samples of areas including and excluding Tokyo. We found that the happiness level of workers in the tourism and restaurant sectors declined drastically after the announcement of the postponement. Only two weeks later, their happiness level did not alter from the pre-announcement level. This tendency was strongly observed in Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures, but not in other prefectures. However, workers engaged in the tourism and restaurant sectors did not predict a decrease in their income even after the postponement. Combined, these findings indicate that loss of extending hospitality, rather than reduction in income, temporarily reduces the happiness level of workers. Full article
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