@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.0931, TITLE={Residents’ perception, a key element of sustainable tourism associated with sports mega-events: The case of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro}, AUTHOR={Roberto Paolo Vico, Ricardo Ricci Uvinha, }, JOURNAL={City and Tourism}, VOLUME={2}, NUMBER={Issue 1}, YEAR={2023}, URL={https://openscience.fr/Residents-perception-a-key-element-of-sustainable-tourism-associated-with}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.0931}, ISSN={2976-5897}, ABSTRACT={Sporting mega-events, such as the Football World Cup and the Olympic Games, are among the major marketing tools for territories. However, they can generate innumerable problems when they are organized by developing or emerging countries. Indeed, in these countries, the impacts are greater because the supply of services and infrastructure is not yet sufficiently supported and only a limited range of the local population benefits from the investments made. The general objective of this article is to understand the perception of part of the local population of Rio de Janeiro of the sports mega-events in Brazil, from a socio-territorial point of view and in terms of tourism. From an ethnographic approach, we show that the most vulnerable groups suffer the negative effects of such mega-events (expropriations and evictions of the population residing in priority investment areas). The creation of a real state of exception in the territory of the city of Rio de Janeiro, combining gentrification and social sanitation, has caused conflicts between a city designed for inhabitants and a city designed for sports tourists. However, the planning and organization of these sporting events could have taken place according to other logics.}}