Mega-Events and Tourism: The Case of Brazil

Robert Baumann () and Victor Matheson

No 1703, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: Mega-sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup are expensive affairs. Host countries often justify the spending required to stage these events by predicting that mega-events will draw large numbers of tourists. This paper analyzes monthly foreign tourist arrivals into Brazil between 2003 and 2015 and finds that the 2014 FIFA World Cup increased foreign tourism by roughly one million visitors. This number far exceeded expectations, but we show that roughly a quarter of this increase in foreign tourism was caused by the fortuitous advancement of Argentina�s national team, and potential hosts should not count on the event to consistently produce out-sized tourism figures We conclude that on-field results can greatly influence FIFA World Cup tourism.

Keywords: World Cup; sports; tourism; Brazil; soccer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 L83 Z23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2017-08
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Published in Contemporary Economic Policy, Volume 36, Number 2, April 2018, Pages 292-301.

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