ABSTRACT
Since the mid-1990s attention has been increasingly given to sport tourism from both the sport and tourism industries and from academics. Travel to take part in or watch sport is nothing new per se, although the use of the term sport tourism to describe this type of travel has become more pervasive over the last ten years. In fact, around the world various governments have initiated sport tourism strategies that have had varying degrees of success. In the realm of academe, the range of scholarly work on sport tourism has increased since the late 1990s. Seven specialist books have been published [1] and several editions of tourism and sport journals have been devoted to sport tourism: Tourism Recreation Research, 22, 1 (1997); Journal of Vacation Marketing, 4, 1 (1998); Visions in Leisure and Business, 18 (spring 1999); Current Issues in Tourism, 5, 1 (2002); Journal of Sport Management, 17, 3 (2003); and the European Journal of Sport Management, 5, 3 (2005). As befitting a relatively new area of scholarly enquiry, some of the early writings were devoted to discussions over 'what is sport tourism?' In general, there is agreement that sport tourism constitutes two types, an active type and a passive form [2] . However, Redmond [3] suggested that in line with a trend in tourism in general there appears to be a third form of sport tourism, that concerned with nostalgia. Thus, I suggested that sport tourism could be defined as 'leisure-based travel that takes individuals temporarily outside of their home communities to participate in physical activities [Active Sport Tourism], to watch physical activities [Event Sport Tourism], or to venerate attractions associated with physical activities [Nostalgia Sport Tourism]' [4] .
