SPORT TOURISM : Facts

 

I KNOW

 

World Tourism is GROWING

• Arrivals expected to grow at 4.3 percent per year ---- to reach 1.6 billion by 2020

• Tourists worldwide spending expected to grow at 6.7% per year ---- to reach US $2 trillion

 

Sports Tourism is GROWING

• A multi-billion dollar business -- One of the fastest growing tourism niches contributing to $4.5 trillion global travel and tourism industry

• Sport travelling can account for as much as quarter of all tourism receipts

 

SPORT TOURISM is specific travel outside the customer’s usual environment for either passive or active involvement in sport where sport is the prime motivational reason for travel

 

Involves either viewing or participating in a sporting event