Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi

Archive for April, 2009

Here i am  going to put on a happening news from new Delhi.. yes the preparation of Commonwealth games has been started and it’s going in the scheduled way. Mr suresh kalmadi said  that we need some necessary infrastructure to make it on it’s way

Indian Olympic Association President Suresh Kalmadi on Thursday said that the preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games are progressing as per the schedule.While addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Thursday, he said, The necessary infrastructure needed for the New Delhi Games will be ready by 2009.

The 2010 Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held in Delhi from October 3-14, 2010. This will be the largest multi-sport event conducted till date in Delhi and India generally, which has previously hosted the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. The opening ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi.

This is the first time the Commonwealth Games will be held in India, which will be the third developing country to host the event (after Jamaica in 1966 and Malaysia in 1998). This is the second time the event has been held in Asia (after 1998).

While knowing the period beforehand for the CWG is a definite advantage for the ministry of culture, tourism, transport and industrial development, there are many related ministries wanting to also jump the bandwagon to use the CWG as a base for developing greater public relations with domestic, regional and international representatives at the CWG for their industry.

Since the Olympic and Commonwealth Games are the second largest sports events held in modern times, going by the fact that other cities that have hosted the CWG have recorded major spurt in tourism, Indian tourism sector is also looking forward to this chance of their country playing host to the CWG and it getting a worthy chance at presenting newer, vibrant youth-appeal for their motherland.

Some examples for novel cultural showcasing and successful gift-wrapping done by tourism sectors having played host to CWG before are global interest segments like adventure, spa or spirituality tourism, as evident in the case of earlier hosts of world sporting events: Beijing, China and Barcelona, Spain benefited from hosting the Olympics while Manchester, UK and Melbourne, Australia received greater tourist inflow during and after playing host to CWG 2002 and 2006,