Why organize O-Ringen

The O-Ringen also provides a fantastic opportunity to profile your home town and a great opportunity to contribute to your community. For example, participants in the O-Ringen 2008 in Dalarna brought in about 250 million kronor in sales in connection with the O-Ringen week, money which to a large degree was brought in to the local business community and voluntary sector. And in market research after the event O-Ringen participants are usually very positive about coming back to the area as a tourist or for other purposes in the future. Via O-Ringen contacts can be made with authorities and public bodies which can be very valuable in the long term.

The O-Ringen gives an  excellent opportunity to profile orienteering as a sport and create new recruitment to the association and district.  It is not possible to miss that the O-Ringen takes place and it provides opportunities to influence new membership and new participants.

To organize an O-Ringen requires volunteer leadership and commitment and the organization of the O-Ringen is absolutely something to have on your CV. Many have reported that cooperation within the association, and even between local associations in the district and region, has improved through the process of organizing an O-Ringen. You get aa good sense of team work and learn from others.