Sport as a tourism attraction in Malaysia: potential and prospects

• Main Authors: Jabil Mapjabil, Mazdi Marzuki, Mohd Jirey Kumalah, Logeswaran Tangavello, Mohammad Kadir Zainal Abidin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2015
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9553/1/3.geografia-si-nov15-jabilmapjabil-edam.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9553/; http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php?cont=a&item=2&thn=2015&vol=11&issue=12&ver=loc
• Institution: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Sport tourism has become a popular sub-sector in the tourism industry today. Until the early 1990s, tourism and sports existed as two distinct areas of activities but the success in organizing the World Conference on Sport Tourism in Barcelona, Spain 2001has resulted in more serious attention bein...