SEA Games Case Study

4.0 Risk factor for hosting SEA Games
Though hosting SEA Games bring a lot of benefit to Malaysia, it actually brings risks to the hosting country also. Some of the risk can be eliminate if the host country put more efforts and pay attention on it, but some are not easily to avoid. 4.1 terrorism problem Terrorism is a topic that focus and follow by the whole world in nowadays. It is never an easy thing to manage the security of a country, and it becomes harder when the country hosting a major sporting events that include many countries. Because the sports events will attract millions of tourist and visitors, but also terrorist as the host country will become a very good target for them to attack. During the 29th SEA Games, our country had
About 12,000 policemen collaborate with armies to monitor and worked at different locations nearby the events to make sure the safety of the events. Through the high implemented level of security, we know that terror attack is a serious problem that Malaysia can’t slacken about it. Because during the SEA Games, millions of foreign visitors came to our country, thus, Malaysia has the duty to protect them and rivalry with the terrorist. When the last time Malaysia held the SEA Games in September 2001, it had a terrorists attacked The World Trade Center in New York (9/11 Attack). Malaysian immediately formed a team to discuss how to prevent the terror attacks. Because we need to have an alert of the attack happened overseas will happen in our country too especially on that time many visitors came to Malaysia. Furthermore, host country also need to tighten the security about the sports venue. All the people that want enter into the venues should been scanned to make sure no weapon or bomb will be bring into it. It also should have security team patrol to make sure the security and order is
Although the costs of hosting sports event can reduce through sponsorship and ticket sales, but most of the cost still need pad by government and the host country has prepared to incur losses. Therefore, it can be costly to the country which need to be paid by the taxpayer. Host country will upgrade or build the new infrastructure and stadium to meet the sports events, some country even will build a games village for the athletes. This is always a big cost to the host city, but many facilities are always used only for the period of the events. After the end of the sports event, many of these places are leave uncultivated. For example, the Rio 2016 Olympic venues was left in ruin after the Olympic was ended. The swimming pool was abandoned, seats was missing and have debris that not yet clear in the venue. Besides, as the hosting sports events is expensive, it is important to have a proper management on it. If there is any mismanagement on the budget and expenditures of the events, some country will then incur serious funding problems. This may make the budget of country deficit and may need many years to recovery the country’s economic. For instance, host country of 2016 Olympic which was Brazil is having 32 million pounds of debt from the hosting Olympic. This make Brazil can’t manage the Olympic venues, thus, the venue was left in