@article{article_1621400, title={INVESTIGATING THE IMPORTANCE OF SPORTS ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH ON TOURISM: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF EU COUNTRIES}, journal={Dicle Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi}, volume={15}, pages={172–190}, year={2025}, DOI={10.53092/duiibfd.1621400}, author={Gövdeli, Tuncer}, keywords={Sports Economics, Economic Growth, Tourism, EU Countries}, abstract={The global sports economics has been growing at a rapidly in recent years. With the increasing popularity of sports, the tourism activities of the countries are diversifying. Especially countries that can bring major sports organizations to their countries can benefit greatly from this. The main motivation of this study is to clarify the importance of sports economics. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of sports tourism on tourism revenues in EU member states for the period 2001-2022. As a result of the cointegration analysis, it was determined that the variables were cointegrated. The cointegration coefficient estimator was used to estimate the elasticity coefficients of the variables. In the analysis results, the elasticity coefficients of economic growth and sports economics are positive and statistically significant. Panel VECM analysis was used to determine the causality relationship between the variables. In the causality findings, economic growth is the causal of tourism receipts and tourism receipts is the causal of sports economics. According to the empirical findings, it is recommended that policy makers implement policies that will revitalize sports economics by investing in the country’s sports infrastructure.}, number={29}, publisher={Dicle University}