SPORT AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION
A review of the early academic literature that
spans the disciplines of both sport and tourism
con®rms a disparate approach to this topic.
Before the 1990s, insights to sport tourism
were mainly provided through research in
related domains. As the academic study of
sport tourism has progressed, sport began to
receive much more targeted attention as
re¯ected in the assortment of sport tourism
typologies that have recently emerged. Despite
increasing focus on the basic nature of sport
within a tourism system, there has been very
little explicit discussion of the ®t of sport
within current theories on tourist attractions.