An Economic Impact Case Study: The South Pacific Masters' Games

Chris Ryan and Tim Lockyer

Tourism Economics, 2001, vol. 7, issue 3, 267-275

Abstract: The South Pacific Masters' Games in New Zealand is an example of sports tourism promoted by sporting enthusiasts as a commercial venture with support from a local authority, Hamilton City Council. Council support was motivated partly by a wish to achieve economic gain from the Games. The study estimates that the total of 1,655 competitors created a net incremental economic impact of NZNZ$249,000 (about £90,000). Additionally, the paper provides a case study of how direct economic impacts might be assessed and discusses reasons why such small-scale local studies should perhaps not attempt multiplier estimates, given the type of data that such studies require.

Keywords: economic impacts; sports tourism; Masters' Games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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