In my course at Full Sail University, I am developing a business plan named “VolunTripper.” The product of this business plan is a package tour that includes volunteer working related with sports development in developing countries. I believe that playing sports can help children to develop their humanities and communication skills. To prove my opinion makes sense, I was looking for a speech on TED.com that talked about the importance of sports. I chose an interesting speech about educating children by Gever Tulley. The main topic of this speech was not sports, but this speech showed a relationship between the physical activity and educating children.
Voluntourism Industry
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| WYSE Work Abroad |
Most of sports development program in developing countries are operated by volunteer workers and non-profit organizations. According to Adventure Travel Trade Association, travel companies provide package tour including volunteer work. This kind of tour is known as voluntourism, and this industry is growing fast. WYSE Work Abroad is a trading association for the voluntourism industry. This association is one of the sectors of WYSE Travel Confederation dedicated to improve the youth travel industry. More than 150 companies and organizations from 40 different countries join WYSE Work Abroad, and as the benefits of being the member, they can receive business opportunities and trends for the industry. Also, the member of this association can receive research.
The Olympics: Does it actually help the economy of the host countries?
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| Pyeongchang, South Korea will host 2018 Winter Olympics |
On July 7th, South Korea won to host 2018 Winter Olympics. South Korea calculates to gain 27billion dollars by hosting the Olympics. Also, the potential economical benefit of the Olympics is estimated as twice as large as the benefit of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup and 4 times lager than 1988 Seoul Olympics. As South Korea, a lot of countries try to host the Olympics to boost their economics. However, it is hard to say the Olympics always bring economical benefit to the host countries.
India: the Hottest Sports League
Since 2008, India has hosted major sports events. The Indian government plans to develop infrastructures and transportation by hosting sports events. Also, India associates with other countries to educate future athletes, so the government send athletes to abroad and invite coaches to India.
The most popular sport in India is cricket. It is said that every Indian boy played cricket. Therefore, cricket is called as the unofficial national sport of India. Also, India is one of the most important countries for the development of cricket. In the middle of the 19th century, cricket was brought to India by the British. Since then, it spread throughout the country. Because of the popularity of cricket, the national cricket team won the World Cup Cricket in 1983. This year, team India won the championship again.
China: Potential Market
China is the fastest economic growing country, and it is the second largest economic country after the United States. The sports industry in China is one of the most important industries to support the economic growth of this country. The Chinese government established the five-year plan to boost the value of the sports industry to accelerate the economic growth. Also, the Chinese sports industry is the potential market for the foreign sports industries and the sports related industries.
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| Yao Ming |
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