Revisiting the Effect of Hosting Large-Scale Sport Events on International Tourist Inflows

Igor Drapkin, Ivan Savin and Zverev Ilya

Journal of Sports Economics, 2024, vol. 25, issue 1, 98-125

Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature examining the impact of large-scale sport events (LSEs) on international tourist inflows from 1995 to 2019. Our proposed method involves the calculation of tourist potential and the analysis of actual-to-potential ratios before and after the event. This approach allows us to measure the effect of LSE on a particular hosting country rather than its average effect. Our findings demonstrate a strong “crowding-out†effect for international tourists, with only four out of 18 LSEs resulting in a positive effect on tourist arrivals in the host country.

Keywords: sport large-scale events; gravity model of the tourist flows; Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood method; counterfactual analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/15270025231206393

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