Sport Tourism: Factors Of Influence On Sport Event Visit Motivation
Abstract
Tourism and sport are key elements of today’s culture and have a specific influence on the behaviour of society. Especially since the 1960’s sport has become a huge international matter with large amount of media attention, money and also political interest. On the other hand tourism remains the world’s largest industry as well as very developing and growing.
Within sport tourism the distinction between active participation and passive spectatorship is an essential difference. In this research a behavioural approach is taken towards the principal of sport event tourism. There has been a significant growth of sport event tourism over the years which provide certain tourists a lot of opportunities for whom watching sport has become a primary reason to travel. This development has encouraged the writer to examine the sport event tourist behaviour.