Articles of category "Sports Tourism International Council"

One of the fastest growing sectors that continue to evolve, sports tourism is a result of interacting of the tourism and sports industries, aimed at drawing more tourists to a particular destination. Since the 1960s, a number of important trends have emerged in the areas of tourism and sports, which were developed to form profitable industries in the world economic forum. Currently, sports tourism is characterized by significant growth ratio in many countries worldwide.

Canadian Sports tourism can be defined as an activity in which tourists are attracted to some particular location as spectators of sports events or participants of sports attractions. This one of the fastest growing sectors of national economies is a $2.4 billion industry in Canada, according to the Canadian Sport Tourism Alliance. Headquartered in Canada is the professional association for sports tourism profession - Sports Tourism International Council.