Sport Tourism Event on The Beach

Abstract

Sports events are very interesting in increasing visitors to a place. Sports events must get support from various sectors because, in some of the previous research on sports events, the management and design of activities were still independent and separate, it should have been joint support from the government, stakeholders and industry players, and SMEs. Methods: Two data sources were accessed (Google Scholar and Eric Journal). Study selection includes forms of sports tourism events that can increase tourism potential. The same type of qualitative descriptive research, using interview techniques, observation, and exercises was carried out. Objects to the government, society, and business actors. Results: 1860 articles were retrieved, and 5 articles were used. The shown study shows that tourist sports events have a very big influence to be held optimally so that they have the quality of being able to attract tourism, which is attractive as well as with maximum management space distention and can be combined with types of arts or sports according to local wisdom and cross-sectoral support. Conclusion: Tourism sporting events show that sporting events are an innovation in sports combined with tourism, providing excellent results for tourist distention areas which are packaged as sporting events that attract visitors to attend. Sports events need cross-sectoral support so that these activities will create satisfaction for consumers and improve the economy of industry players and MSMEs. Keywords: event, sports tourism, beach.