Presentation of Sport Tourism

2.  Importance of the sports tourism, as an
instrument of economic development and
employment generation, particularly in remote
and backward areas, has been well recognized
the world over.
 Tourism has the potential to grow at a high rate
and ensure consequently development of
infrastructure of the destinations.
 It has the capacity to capitalize on the country's
success in the services sector and provide
sustainable models of growth.

3. The notion of people traveling to participate
and watch sport dates back to the ancient
Olympic Games, and the practice of
stimulating tourism through sport has existed
for over a century.
Within the past five years, however, sport
and tourism professionals have begun to
realize the significant potential of sport
tourism and are aggressively pursuing this
market niche.

4. The three domains of sport tourism:
 active sport tourism, which refers to people
who travel to take part in sport;
 event sport tourism, which refers to travel to
watch a sports event;
 nostalgia sport tourism, which includes visits
to sports museums, famous sports venues,
and sports themed cruises.

5. 1. To study the Sport and Tourism sector in
India.
2. To study the offerings of Sport Tourism in
India.
3. To study the Sport Tourism opportunity in
India.

6. The present study has been descriptive; the data for this study were
obtained from secondary sources.
The secondary data has been collected from various references which
already existed in published form; part of the paper is based on literature
review the method comprising of collecting all the available papers relating
to the theme and selecting relevant papers/books for the review purpose.
Selection of the paper is done on the basis of their relevance and
contribution to the body of knowledge.

7.  Respondent like to
experience the culture
of the place/country
where the sport event is
held
33
17
No. of Respondents
Yes
No

8.  Sport event is the reason respondent travels
towards the destination
37
13
No. of Respondents
Yes
No

9.  Atmosphere in big sport event encourages the
respondent visit again
27
23
No. of Respondents
Yes No

10.  Respondent sharing sport interest with other people
40
10
No. of Respondents
Yes No

11.  Sports Tourism can be a vital force for world peace and increasing understanding and
interdependence.
 Throughout the world, sports tourism can contribute to the establishment of a new
international economic order that will help to eliminate the widening economic gap
between developed and developing sports tourism countries and insure the steady
acceleration of economic and social development and progress in particular of the
developing countries.
 Although Sports Tourism is a niche segment in India, it is growing rapidly, with a large
number of entrepreneurs willing to invest in it.
 In order to support their endeavor's, the government needs to arrange an overall
sprucing of infrastructure management, security issues and marketing strategies.
 The travel operators themselves feel the need to introduce more value-added services
so as to beckon international tourists to India.

12.  The Tourism Ministry must take necessary step to market
India as a sport tourism destination.
 Necessary marketing and advertising strategies need to be
taken to popularize various sport events held in the country.
 India must focus on improving the infrastructural facilities,
providing safety and security and improving health and
hygienic conditions in the country so that no athlete or country
pulls out of the tournament, as it has been happening ever
since.
 The feasibility to the location of any sport event conducted
need to be improved.
 The sport event conducted must not affect the lives of the
localities as well as should not affect the environment.

13.  sport tourism is evolving and is very important
aspect of tourism industry.
 Sport tourism in India has a great scope for
future study as India is an destination which is
developing in all the aspects of tourism.
 sport tourism is a booming in India in various
fields of sport. There is lot of potential for sport
tourism in the country which will encourage the
individuals in pursuing this study.