Tourism is enhanced by featuring a city as world class! I know a lot of folks that visit Calgary to see the city that was featured in those games. And before the games they thought that calgary was a One horse town. I suspect that the millions of tourism dollars spent in calgary since the games was close to the money lost but never figured into the equasion!
Sydney is now a more prestigious place cuz of the wonderful job the aussies did hosting!
The Canadian broadcasters spent a great deal of time featuring what a beautifull place Austraila is.
Look at the tourism advertising the host city gets and try to put a dollar figure on it. The whole world watches the Olympics! Mabey not people in the third world but how much traveling are they gonna do?
Could it be thats the real reason that cities are triing to host and not just to piss off the paranoid few that think that politicians are out to get them?
Raptor