Sport tourism is defined as “leisure-based travel that takes individuals temporarily outside of their home communities to participate in physical activities, to watch
physical activities, or to venerate attractions associated with physical activities”
(Gibson, 1998a, p. 49). In the United States, sport tourism is a $27 billion per year
industry (Kurtzman & Zauhar, 1998), and it has become a significant economic
activity for many regions (Eugenio-Martin, 2003). According to the Travel Industry