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Post-event leverage and Olympic legacy: A strategic framework for the development of sport and cultural tourism in post-Olympic Athens
No full textAlthough the hosting of the 2004 Olympics in Athens constituted a unique opportunity for the diversification and enrichment of Athens’ (and Greece’s) tourism product, the evident lack of coordination between commercial providers and public governing bodies inhibited the development of a joint strategic approach to leverage the Games. However, the successful organization of the Olympics left a valuable intangible and tangible legacy for Athens, enhancing its heritage and tourism infra/superstructure respectively. Given the unrealized aspiration of harnessing the post-Olympic facilities, this study examines the potential of Athens to exploit its Olympic legacy for the joint development of sport and cultural tourism. This attempt seeks to synthesize a common ground for sport and cultural tourism development in Olympic cities by focusing on Olympic tourism in the post-Games period as it relates to the use of Olympic legacy and post-Olympic assets. A qualitative approach was adopted by conducting nine semi-structured interviews with city officials and tourism administrators. Findings reveal the conditions for synergistic development of sport and cultural tourism and the actions required to mobilize the network of actors, resources and assets that can enable Athens to move from its current inertia and implement post-event leveraging. The study argues that it is still not late for Athens to leverage its post-Olympic assets/legacy capitalizing on its unique and rich cultural heritage interwoven with the Olympic Games. Towards this direction, the study sheds light on what and how can be corrected in order to mitigate the sources and consequences of problems, while providing lessons for future Olympic cities. Finally, a strategic framework is suggested for leveraging the Olympic legacy and developing sustainable post-Olympic (sport and cultural) tourism products
Public relations ethics – the early history of the code of Athens
No full textIn 1965, the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) adopted an International Code of Ethics, which became known as the Code of Athens, as its statement of public relations ethics. The Code reflected the hopeful, post-World War 2 ethical framework with its linkage to the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948. It was the first international code of ethics enacted in the public relations field. Many public relations leaders of the time saw public relations as a force for social progress and a bulwark against oppressive regimes in the Communist world and military dictatorships. A code of ethics was an early imperative of IPRA which came into being 10 years earlier. It came after a Code of Conduct, adopted in 1961, which was known as the Code of Venice. Both codes were adopted by CERP and several national public relations associations and widely promoted. Using sources from the IPRA archive, the paper explores the evolution of the Code, its implementation and modification. A feature of the debate within IPRA about the Code was whether it was a statement of ideals to which members should aspire or a statement of standards. The view of prominent IPRA members from Anglo-American countries was that the Code, while laudable, was unenforceable. There are, however, no archived records of disciplinary action against members. The paper will also consider the practice implications of preparing and implementing universal ethical statements in public relations and allied communication fields
Towards reviving post-Olympic Athens as a cultural destination
No full textThis paper examines the effects of global change on the status and qualities of the Greek national capital, Athens, focusing on how they affect the development of cultural tourism in the city. Although Athens constituted one of the most significant destinations for Greek tourism in the past, in recent years it started to weaken. Athens is characterised by a series of problems, among them are the degradation of its environment and quality of life and traffic congestion. However, in terms of tourism development, the Olympic Games helped in re-imaging the city and upgrading its infrastructure. This study based on semi-structured interviews with top officials reveals how global change has affected Athens’ socio-cultural/economic status, identity and image. Despite the tourism policy/planning responses to global changes, Athens’ tourism continues to decline leaving unexplored potential such as its rich cultural heritage, new multicultural identity and the New Acropolis Museum. The paper suggests that cultural elements of capital cities must be multidimensional including a variety of attractions and amenities. The use of cultural heritage assets needs to be in line with global developments in order for cities to effectively leverage heritage for cultural tourism
Designs of ritual: The City Dionysia of fifth-century Athens
No full textSelected papers and discussions from
the Tenth Anniversary Symposion of the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 12-16 May 199
Challenges and Perspectives on Metropolitan Governance in Athens
No full textThe fragmentation of local government structures (more than 120 municipalities), combined with the traditional ‘sectoral federalism’ within a centralist state, the lack of visible democratic legitimacy and political responsibility for the whole region, could not foster the implementation of coherent policies for the metropolitan area of Athens. For a long period, the rising socioeconomic complexity combined to a growing deficit of social capital and urban identity, as well as to several self-referential organizations and particularistic interests had led to a series of failures and blockades. The governability-problems of Athens have been a legend for many years. Economic recovery and an unprecedented mobilization due to the city’s nomination for the Olympic Games (in 1996), gave new hope to citizens and stakeholders that had continually been frustrated. Large-scaled projects (with pressing needs for private capital and expertise), a growing voluntary sector and self-confident local leaders shaped new, more “open†networks of metropolitan policies. The success of new, result-oriented metropolitan coalitions in and for Athens has in deed been remarkable: The “face and the image of the city†has drastically changed, while the achievement of effectively organizing the games in a small country should not be under-estimated. The “mega-project†of the Games created a strong public awareness, new platforms and new agendas of public deliberation. During the games, the city revealed the “hidden treasure†of Athenian civil society that proved to be much stronger than expected. Soon after, the need to conceptualize a ‘modern’ scheme of metropolitan governance became a part of the political debate. The need for metropolitan reform is widely accepted but public debate on alternative scenarios seems to postpone the starting point. For the moment, the danger of a “back to normal businessâ€-effect is growing. An environment of non-continuity and disruption, distrust and non-transparency seems to rise again. How could the perspective of metropolitan integration through governance be still kept alive in Athens? How are the positive effects of “mega-projects†for metropolitan governance to be evaluated and further advantaged in cases like the one of Athens?
Olympic legacy and cultural tourism: Exploring the facets of Athens' Olympic heritage
No full textThis study examines the effects of the Olympic Games on Athens’ cultural tourism and the city’s potential to leverage the Olympic legacy in synergy with its rich heritage in order to enhance its tourism product during the post-Games period. In doing so, a qualitative and interpretive approach was employed. This includes a literature review on Athens’ 2004 Olympics to identify the sport facilities and regeneration projects, which constitute the Olympic legacy and heritage. Based on that, an empirical analysis was undertaken, by collecting official documents about the 2004 Olympics, and conducting five semi-structured interviews with tourism/administrative officials. The findings indicate that the Olympiad contributed significantly to Athens’ built and human heritage, revealing the dimensions of new venues/facilities, infrastructure, transportation and aesthetic image of the city, and human capital enhancement. Hence, the Games affected to the multifaceted representation and reconstruction of the city’s identity and cultural heritage. However, the potential afforded from the post-Olympic Athens remains unrealised due to lack of strategic planning/management. The study concludes that there is a need to develop cross-leveraging synergies between the Olympic legacy and cultural tourism for the host city. Finally, a strategic planning framework for leveraging post-Games Olympic tourism is suggested in order to maximise the benefits of Olympic legacy and heritage in a host city’s tourism development
Athens Gay Peoples Alliance
No full textThis news release is from the Athens Gay Peoples Alliance about the upcoming events for the fall semester at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. It gives the time, date, and location of the alliance's meetings
Urban tourism in Athens: tourist myths and images
No full textThis thesis explores and analyses the mythical quality of modem Athens as experienced by tourists. It is an exploration of the tourist gaze upon the Athenian landscape, as well as an account of how tourists narrate its urban mythology. This research is largely concerned with the relationship of time and space through memory, exploring the interplay between the spatial arrangement of urban elements, temporality and the experience of the city. Athens is viewed as a city marked by a temporal collage where different historical periods are juxtaposed. This juxtaposition gives Athens the character of a deconstructed city. The city is made present through spatialised remainders, her genius loci. This thesis thus analyses the relationship between Athens past and the present, the strangely familiar and the stereotypically exotic, as interwoven within an urban landscape imagined, gazed and finally, narrated by foreign tourists. The core argument of this work is that the Athenian landscape embodies an urban mythology constructed by the nineteenth century romantic travellers: these, through their writings, fashioned the stereotypical imagery of Athens. Modem tourists are the consumers of these myths. Like their nineteenth century predecessors, tourists stroll around the city following the traces of their memory - key landmarks and symbols, recognising what they have already known; feeling nostalgic for the past -their past, fragmenting the landscape into different historic layers, depopulating it from its present inhabitants, orientalising it. In this work I explore the transmission and reinvention of the myths of Athens through guidebooks, travel brochures, guided tours and tourist photographs. The exploration of the different images of Athens as visualised by tourists leads to a discussion of gendered, orientalised, literary, photographic and cartographic aspects of the Athenian urban landscape. The theoretical framework of the thesis is based on post-modernism, post-structuralism and semiotics. My research methods have been qualitative, including both in-depth interviews and participant observation, following tourists around the city and participating in their activities. I also analysed the ways tourists 'gaze' and photograph the city. My intention is to draw -metaphorically speaking- a mental map including the sites visited, consumed and experienced by tourists
Athens Demapped: Archaeology, Heritage, and Urban Transformation
No full textAthens Demapped: Archaeology, Heritage, and Urban Transformation explores the entangled relationships between classical heritage, memory, and modernity in the evolving city of Athens. Dimitris Plantzos interrogates how archaeology, tourism, and urban planning have shaped the city`s identity, revealing Athens not as a timeless monument to antiquity but as a contested landscape where past and present collide.
Rather than a neutral cultural asset, Athens’ classical legacy has been mapped, commodified, and weaponised – used both to forge collective memory and to marginalise dissenting voices. Plantzos critically engages with nostalgia, gentrification, and the politics of heritage, exposing how the myth of Athens as the “cradle of Western civilisation” continues to serve shifting ideological and economic agendas.
At the heart of the book is the concept of “demapping”: the erasure or overwriting of certain spaces, histories, and communities to reinforce dominant narratives and commercial interests. Drawing on archaeological insight, urban theory, and cultural critique, Athens Demapped reimagines the city as a site of overlapping histories and contested futures.
At a moment of rapid urban transformation, this book offers a vital perspective on the uses of the past and the right to the city. Essential reading for scholars of heritage, politics, and space.PublishedAthens Demapped: Archaeology, Heritage, and Urban Transformation explores the entangled relationships between classical heritage, memory, and modernity in the evolving city of Athens. Dimitris Plantzos interrogates how archaeology, tourism, and urban planning have shaped the city`s identity, revealing Athens not as a timeless monument to antiquity but as a contested landscape where past and present collide.
Rather than a neutral cultural asset, Athens’ classical legacy has been mapped, commodified, and weaponised – used both to forge collective memory and to marginalise dissenting voices. Plantzos critically engages with nostalgia, gentrification, and the politics of heritage, exposing how the myth of Athens as the “cradle of Western civilisation” continues to serve shifting ideological and economic agendas.
At the heart of the book is the concept of “demapping”: the erasure or overwriting of certain spaces, histories, and communities to reinforce dominant narratives and commercial interests. Drawing on archaeological insight, urban theory, and cultural critique, Athens Demapped reimagines the city as a site of overlapping histories and contested futures.
At a moment of rapid urban transformation, this book offers a vital perspective on the uses of the past and the right to the city. Essential reading for scholars of heritage, politics, and space
The Athenian_1910-05-01
No full textThe Athenian is student led campus newspaper for Athens State University, formerly called Athens Female Institute, Athens Female College, Athens College, etc. This bulk of this collection spans 1901 to 2018. The newspaper covers topics related to University students, staff, faculty, administration, events, and programs. The campus paper has been titled “The Athenian,” with the exception of the years 1931 - 1949 where it was title “The Crow’s Nest” and in 1963 where it bore the name “The Searcher” and “…the Newspaper.”
The newspapers were digitized and made accessible online thanks to the generous donation of Mary Elizabeth Partin
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