Sports tourism

 

Since the late 1980s, sports tourism has become increasingly popular. Events such as rugby, Olympics and football World Cups have enabled specialist travel companies to gain official ticket allocation and then sell them in packages that include flights, hotels and excursions. Sport tourism is defined as travel undertaken for the purpose of engaging in a particular sport, such as skiing or golf, or to watch a favourite team play.

 

The growth of big sport events is a reason for the growth of sport tourism due to large sporting events becoming more and more commercialised. This results in there being a larger demand to go and watch these events, these events sometimes do not take place in the persons own country leading to tourism. As these events becoming more globalised and commercialised this has led to the growth of sport tourism, as people from further afield travel to these events

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