Sports tourism Selling travel to match Essay

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Sports tourism: Selling travel to matches, races and tournaments 16 April 2009 at 01.00 GMT

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(http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ssd/surveys/international_passenger_survey.asp) shows that in 2007 – the most recent year for which statistics are available – UK residents made 1.5 million trips abroad to watch sport.
That’s 2.2% of all overseas travel and, comparing the average figures for 2006/07 to figures from
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(http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/Articles/2014/08/21/49084/disn paris-bonjour-remy.html) Add to that budget airlines opening up new cheap routes for weekend breaks and it is easy to see why the sector is, by all accounts, continuing to boom.

What’s on offer
Television exposure of sport is at an all-time high, and British successes – such as Team GB’s
Olympics, Andy Murray reaching the US Open final or Lewis Hamilton taking the Formula 1 championship in 2008 – reinforce the armchair enthusiast’s desire to say: ‘I was there’.

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