Sports tourism: Issues and impacts: An anthropological overview

The relationship between sports and tourism is most definitely grinning momentum in both industry and academic domain of tourism studies. Sports sociology and sports Anthropology, sports tourism refers to travel which involves either observing or participating in sporting events staying a part from their usual environment. It is a first-growing sector of the global tourism industry and equates to billions of money. To begin with, the article deals briefly with the concepts of sports tourism and describes the current discussion concerning this field. Subsequently theoretical concept with regard to the sports tourism issues and possible impacts is developed. To conclude, the policy issues regarding the participation in sports tourism as well as regarding perspectives of this field are briefly presented.