Hosting Olympics Games is the highly honourable responsibility which brings International recogonition on Olympic Map, very lucrative sponsorships, TV and Media coverage, plenty of tourism opportunities etc, i.e. it is easy to describe as a 'multi billion dollars' business.

Host selection process starts as, Any city can be named by National Olympic Committee(NOC) to host next Olympic Games. Bidding City have to prepare a 'Bid Book' which carries the detail information and factual presentation of City. It has to give assurance for complete comfort for participants and plans for further improvements.

In the 112th International Olympic Committee(IOC) session which was held in Moscow, Beijing was elected to host 2008 summer olympics in the final two rounds of voting beating other four cities which was in the race named: Toronto(Canada), Istanbul(Turkey), Osaka(Japan), Paris(France).

2008 Summer Olympics bidding results

Bidding City	Country	Round One	Round Two
Beijing	China	44	56
Toronto	Canada	20	22
Paris	France	15	18
Istanbul	Turkey	17	9
Osaka	Japan	6	—