There is no real justification for considering event
tourism as a separate field of studies. The constraint is
that both tourism and event studies are necessary to
understand this kind of experience. As well, there are subareas
like sport and cultural tourism (in which intrinsic
motivations prevail) and business travel (mostly extrinsically
motivated) that also focus on the event tourism
experience. In a similar vein, Deery, Jago, and Fredline
(2004) asked if sport tourism and event tourism are the
same thing. Their conceptualization showed sport tourism
as being at the nexus of event tourism and sport, with both
sport tourism and event tourism being sub-sets of tourism
in general. Indeed, there is almost limitless potential for
sub-dividing tourism studies and management in this
manner.