The role of sport events in outbound tourism and its effects

Introduction: Sport events are developing, and getting more popular year by year. Especially in tourism sphere. Many countries paying more attention and money to develop sport destinations (Pouder,2018). In addition, tourists tend to visit attractions which is well known with sport events. Sport tourism gives a great opportunity to show country’s attractive places and local culture to the world. (1) However Heather Gibson(1988) investigated that sport tourists different from other type of tourists. Henry (1964) and Stebbins(2011) learned studies in physical activities and events in tourism, such as management of sport tourism. Sport Eventsusually divided into two: attractive sport events, which tourists go to destinations for having fun, and participatory sport events. (Sports 2014). The most important thing is finding motivation and desire to visit. However, there are negative effects after taking big events. On the one hand, events bring a big revenue for the host country, on the another hand it causes serious problemssuch as environmental pollution, traffic jams, crime.These kind of problems are visible after the event taking place. According to Matheson Victor(2006) mega-events attract lots of famous faces, new investors to the host country. Mayor Boris Johnson said, during Olympic games in 2012, created nearly 20 000 new job opportunities. Almost 60% additional investments were taken from outside of London. (London2012). This kind of mega- events give motivation by its gold, silver, bronze medals. After being a winner of the competition, the participants have their own authority among other nations. (Baade, Robert A, 2016). This study aims toexamine effects of sport events in outboundtourism. The main purpose of the study is to find most important sport factors and impacts in this industry.