Measuring the economic impact of covid-19 on the uk’s leisure and sport during the 2020 lockdown

dc.contributor.authorKokolakakis, Themis
dc.contributor.authorLera López, Fernando
dc.contributor.authorRamchandani, Girish
dc.contributor.departmentEconomíaes_ES
dc.contributor.departmentEkonomiaeu
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-07T07:47:43Z
dc.date.available2022-04-07T07:47:43Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis research evaluates the effect of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic on sport Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and consumer expenditure in the leisure sector in the United Kingdom (UK). The leisure sector is divided into leisure at home and away from home, examining in this way the dif-ferent patterns that emerged because of the national lockdown in 2020. The effect on sport GDP is examined using the Office for National Statistics (ONS) surveys and the UK Sport Satellite Account (SSA). The study found that, because of its reliance on human contact, sport GDP is likely to decline by more than twice the rate of the overall economy. Furthermore, this finding is consistent with the 2020 consumer expenditure on leisure that shows increases in spending on home leisure but also a huge decline in spending on out-of-home entertainment. The decline in GDP is extremely likely to put pressure on profit margins and hence threaten the survival of private enterprises, raising issues of sustainability under conditions of a pandemic. Increases in long-term public funding for reducing sport inequalities should be considered along with short-term relief packages for the sport sector. Additional policy suggestions are offered to address these issues.en
dc.format.extent15 p.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su132413865
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.urihttps://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/42671
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherMDPIen
dc.relation.ispartofSustainability 2021, 13, 13865en
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.3390/su132413865
dc.rights© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.es_ES
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectConsumer spendingen
dc.subjectCOVID-19en
dc.subjectSporten
dc.subjectSport satellite accountsen
dc.subjectSustainabilityen
dc.titleMeasuring the economic impact of covid-19 on the uk’s leisure and sport during the 2020 lockdownen
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