Overall, it appeared that promoting a hallmark sport event to aninternational audience in order to induce a destination imageamong those respondents who had never visited the destinationdoes have an effect and increased how they evaluated the destinationholistically. This provides empirical evidence to the recommendationsthat Green et al. (2003) made in their studytoward using a sport event to improve the image of a destination.According to them, the majority of the coverage is aimed at thesport event itself, and a destination is at risk of receiving minimalcoverage outside of the event. Our study confirms that destinationsshould develop strategies that ensure coverage of thedestination apart from the sport event. Our study also lendsfurther support for the work of Tasci and Gartner (2007) whoproposed a model in which induced images are perceived to beantecedents to complex images. Through our quasi-experimentaldesign, we were able to tease out the effects of one particularalteration to a destination’s image and manipulate the inducedimage of the host destination of the event. Our findings suggestthat manipulating the induced image through promoting an eventdid have an effect on the overall complex image of the respondents,and in particular, increased their holistic appreciation of thecity (measured through the adjectives).