During a major tourism summit hosted in Limerick City this week it was announced that Ireland could double its revenue from sport tourism up to as much as €600 million over the next five years. Over recent years the sports tourism industry has been identified as the fastest growing tourism sector is worth an estimated €450 billion.
The organisers behind the European Sport Tourism Summit, the first event of its kind to be held in this country, have proposed the establishment of a ‘national bid unit’ that in conjunction with the Department of Sport and Tourism and would bid for international events.