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Sport Tourism

Title: Sport Tourism
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 1621 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Sport Tourism
Sport Tourism by Joy Standeven and Paul DeKnop investigates the symbiotic relationship between sports and tourism. During the twentieth century, sports tourism has greatly increased in popularity and the economical benefits it provides to a regional economy has elevated the interests in political elites to obtain such spectacles. Sports tourism has many positive aspects to society. The chief beneficiaries are: monetary advantages, infrastructure improvements and development of sports programs. These beneficiaries are primarily due to …showed first 75 words of 1621 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1621 total…ignored, its risks are minimal. The positive aspects to a regional economy are to great to be ignored and therefore plans for a sport tourism industry are undertaken. Increase in tourism and tourism activities within a region that achieve a sport tourism industry leads to an inevitable amount of increased monetary. Thus, the economical factors, improvements in infrastructure and the development of sports programs are a major determining factor when political elites pursue sporting spectacles.

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