Tourismological classification of sporting events

Abstract

Sporting events are programs, which are dominated by creative and complex facilities, primarily sports, but also recreation and entertainment. As such, they achieve tourism effects and goals and have a socio-economic importance for the city, region or state. Depending on the size and importance of sports event, sport has a different role in the context of promoting tourist destination, as well as different values. Each sport discipline has its own criteria by which athletes are ranked individually or as team. The subject of the research is to determine the criteria for the categorization of sporting events, in order to determine the importance of sporting events as an element of the tourist offer (individually or as part of a tourist destination). Also, this paper's results present a comparative analysis of similar methodologies for the categorization of sporting events. Based on the research presented in the paper, there are four groups of criteria: economic, media, social and environmental. Together with this, paper gives the classification of traditional sporting events in the case of Serbia, dividing them in four groups.

Innovative Sustainable Tourism Development and Entrepreneurship through Sports Events

“…Sports tourism is characterized by the movement of individuals or groups in order to participate in a sporting event [44]. Sports events can be classified as mega sporting events (e.g., The Olympic Games); or medium, which include events at the regional and national level; and finally, small, which refer to small-sized local sports competitions [45]. In the past, several research efforts have focused on the management of major sporting events by analyzing their impact on the local community during, before, and after the event [46].…”

Attitudes of the Local Population in Border Municipalities on Development of Sport-Event Tourism

“…It is recognized as a synonym for the River Drina and, accordingly, contributes of local population awareness of Podrinje tourism potentials, but also to overall economic development and profit making and "it should contribute to destination image and branding" (Getz, 2008). 1 The most important contributions to the sport-event tourism research, including the sport-event "Drinska regatta" were provided by the well-known Serbian authors: Bjeljac (2006), Bjeljac (2010), , Bjeljac et al (2017), and Najdić and Lukić (2016). They represented this sport-event as integral part of tourism offer in the cross-border municipalities of Podrinje, while this research was mainly oriented toward the attitudes of the local population regarding the possibilities for its further development.…”

“…The most important contributions to the sport-event tourism research, including the sport-event “Drinska regatta” were provided by the well-known Serbian authors: Bjeljac (2006), Bjeljac (2010), Bjeljac et al (2006), Bjeljac et al (2017), and Najdić and Lukić (2016). They represented this sport-event as integral part of tourism offer in the cross-border municipalities of Podrinje, while this research was mainly oriented toward the attitudes of the local population regarding the possibilities for its further development.…”

“…They can also contribute in creating a positive image of destination (Arnegger & Herz, 2016; Lopez-Bonilla et al, 2008; Rojas-Mendeza et al, 2019). To determinate an importance of sport-events as elements of overall tourism in border municipalities (independently or integrally with the other aspects of tourism destination), the main subject of this article was identifying the attitudes of the local population role and their involvement in creating and presenting tourism contents at tourism market (Bjeljac et al, 2017; Kovačević & Plavša, 2011).…”