<p> European Association of Tour Operators calls for careful planning and marketing around the Olympics to avoid a slowdown in tourism in London and the UK during the Olympic Games. The ETOA has a precedent, the appeals against the countries in the tourism see the website of the Olympic Games. </ P>
<p> European Tour Operators Association report, published one year after London, the Olympic application, which shows that the countries of the Olympic Games to suffer a decline in the growth of tourism in the years around the event. In addition, the report shows that there is no long-term promotion of tourism, as it claims. </ P>
<p> Australia, a trend growth rate of more than 10% the number of visitors was a case, two years before the Olympic Games in Sydney. The solution consisted of more than two years later. In comparison, the New Zealand, the development of tourism always better during the last decade. In the five years before the Olympic Games in Australia and New Zealand, tourism is developing at the same pace of growth in Australia, but lost a lot of ground immediately after the Olympics. </ P>
Similar <p> Olympic Effect “is also responsible for four of the last five Olympic Games – Sydney 2000, Atlanta 1996, Barcelona 1992 and Seoul 1988. </ P>
ETOA <p> Research also indicates that the positive impact of the Olympic Games would be measured over a longer period. The example of Barcelona, in the longer term the growth in tourism since the games have been exceeded by other European cities like Dublin and Prague comparable. </ P>
<p> of official statistics for the year after the Olympic Games in Athens are not yet available. But the trend seems to be the same. The ETOA said that in 2002, two years before the Olympic Games in Greece were the inputs by 8.2% over the previous year, but in 2003 the figure by 1.5%. This decline continued until early 2004. A month before the Games begin, but the number of visitors fell by 12%. </ P>
<p> EOTA proposed the following measures: </ p>
* A commitment <p> not adversely affect the tourism industry, with an additional fee </ p>
<p> * A national campaign for a sufficient budget to alleviate the inevitable Olympic swimming </ p>
* Special <p> message indicates that London is able to absorb without difficulty and the games for tourism to be opened as usual in the course from 2012 </ p>
* <p> Initiatives for marketing and communications in the years before the games, to the fears that London is full, the excess of the purchase price or otherwise committed, just as it is open and offers </ p>
* Provisions for <p> Olympic visitors a rich experience in the field of tourism, while in the United Kingdom for the Games </ p>
ETOA <p> that many previous reports were for reasons of overview for the future than on the objective reality, by clicking back on the experience of the past and have been for organizations to promote the games. </ P>
<p> International Olympic Committee to the media were “hyperbolic” ETOA offered. The IOC President Jacques Rogge said on CBS in October 2004 that the total amount of viewers the world – with the audience more and more – to around 40 million euros for the Olympic Games in Athens. </ P>
<p> It is the examination after ETOA. There are about 6.5 million people in the world. Of these 1.6 million have no access to electricity, and another 400 million less than five years. To a meeting of a total of 40 million, with nearly three billion people (60% of the world) to watch games every day. The visualization of data from the IOC for Sydney suggest that the number to look at “rush-hour were 280 million euros. Even if this figure multiplied by the number of games, the hearing was only one tenth of the fans demanded. </ P>
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