Αθλητικός τουρισμός και παράγοντες παρακίνησης

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Ρουμπάτη, Παναγιώτα
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rubati, Panajota
• Γλώσσα: Greek
• Έκδοση: 2023
• Θέματα: Αθλητισμός; Τουρισμός; Αθλητικός τουρισμός; Sports; Tourism; Sports tourism

The increase of the number of athletic events and sports fans who are willing to travel to different cities or even different countries in order to watch their favorite players play live in the field have made sports tourism a very popular alternative form of tourism, during the past years. In this paper, through bibliographic research, I examine the factors that motivate people to choose sports tourism as an alternative form of tourism. In addition, in this paper I present the results of a statistical research that I conducted on people between the ages of 18 to 25 years old about their relationship with sports tourism and the factors that lead or prevent them from making a trip like that. The bibliographic research shows that the factors that affect sports tourism are not significantly different than the factors that affect tourism in general. Their difference is in the feelings that sports tourism gives to the tourist, for example the feeling of winning. In contrast, statistical research shows that the main factors that motivate people to sports tourism are the feeling of the unique experience and the fact that they want to support their team.