Can tourism score with football

• Autor(a) principal: Falcão, Nuno Maria Cruz Botelho
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/31128
• topic: Sports tourism; Football; European competitions; Motivations; Turismo desportivo; Futebol; Competições europeias; Motivações; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Sports Tourism industry has been studied for a long time, resulting in many research articles and scope reviews. Past research focus mainly on sports mega-events, to advance previous investigation the present research focuses on tourism from single football games of European Competitions that largely contributes to the Tourism industry in the European continent: Champions League and Europa League. The main objective of this dissertation is to understand if some motivations and necessities influence the intention to visit the city where the event takes place. In order to study the hypotheses, using a quantitative approach, it was used a questionnaire, developed based on the Conceptual Framework and adapted from previous investigation. The questionnaire was collected via online aiming to collect the answer from people watch football games. After conducting a statistical analysis on IBM SPSS Statistics 25, using as the main test the Linear Regression to test the defined hypotheses, the findings support that: i. Entertainment and Eustress are motivations that positively influence the sports tourists to visit the city in which they will attend the game; ii. Facilities and Costs are necessities that positively influence the sports tourists to visit the city in which they will attend the game; iii. Entertainment, Aesthetic and Group Affiliation are motivations that positively influence the search for recommendations of the city in which sports tourists will attend the game; iv. Facilities and Costs are necessities that positively influence the search for recommendations of the city in which sports tourists will attend the game.