1: Jiang Xiaoyu, Vice President, Beijing Olympic City Development Association

“In China, the popularity of ice and snow activities needs to be improved.

The Special Olympics World Games have changed a lot since they first began in Chicago, Illinois nearly 50 years ago.

Scotland’s 2020 vision for event hosting

Paul Bush OBE, Director of Events at VisitScotland, shares his strategic vision of the next two years

Host City: What to you is the most exciting thing currently going on in the world of major events?

In 2015, Beijing and Zhangjiakou jointly won the bid for 2022 Winter Olympic Games and Beijing therefore became the first city that will hold both the summer and winter Olympic Games.

Host City: What are the hot topics on the agenda at SPORTELAsia this year?

This article follows our involvement on a panel discussing the topic of “Creating entertainment hubs and cultural meccas” at the

At the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, the presidents of the organising committee and the International Olympic Committee joined in presenting Korea’s first Winter

[Source: IOC] The International Olympic Committee has approved plans to target African National Olympic Committees (NOCs) as potential host cities of the fourth edition of the Summer Youth Olympic

With PyeongChang 2018 just around the corner, the following Winter Games might seem a long way away – but four years is a short time in the Olympic movement.

“There are two different pathways to develop sport.

Host City: what role can China’s cities play in terms of getting citizens involved in sport?

Host City: Volleyball is extremely popular internationally – but where in the world is it the most popular?

In the months since Rio hosted the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics, we have seen sport’s international governing bodies, such as the International Olympic Committee, FIFA or UEFA, take some important

I have the pleasure of welcoming you all to my host city for the third time – and seeing how this event has developed and grown over the years.

The biggest sporting event to be staged in Scotland since the Commonwealth Games, the first ever European Championships, gained momentum with a 200 day to go celebration on Sunday 14 January 2018.<

Public scepticism about the value of major events such as the Olympic Games is at an all-time high.

I’d like to welcome you all to Glasgow and Scotland for Host City 2017.

Hosted by sports broadcaster, Eilidh Barbour, and held at Glasgow’s Technology & Innovation Centre, 42 expert speakers and a capacity audience gathered for the flagship industry conference to s

Host City, the world’s largest meeting of cities and sports, business and cultural events, took another major step forward this week, recording its greatest participation yet and with the announcem

Scotland-based Aggreko has today been announced as OfficialTemporary Power Supporter for the Glasgow 2018 European Championships.

The reasons behind the evolving event hosting landscape can be debated: better informed government officials; a new point of view from the public; PR-sensitive executives thinking about impact on s

(Source: ICSS) Against the backdrop of growing global concern regarding ownership and investment structures surrounding professional and even amateur sports clubs, leading sport integrity and polic

Host City: Events involving multiple host cities are usually delivered by a local organising committee (LOC) in the host nation.