Sport events as a football fans destinations

Bibliogr. s. 20-22

Sports tourism can be considered in two dimensions: in the first, tourists spend time doing sports, while in the second they are spectators of a sporting event. Dynamic globalization and the related commercialization of sports, as well as the development of the airline market, have increasingly made sports events a determinant of travel. The purpose of the study was to analyze the tourist traffic of trips to the matches of Polish football teams and to present the impact of organizing away football matches on the tourist traffic of football fans. To achieve this objective, an analysis of the tourist traffic of trips to matches of Polish football teams was made and an approach was proposed to measure the popularity of supporters' trips, which is based on the ratio of the average attendance of supporters at away matches to the average attendance at home meetings. Its highest value was recorded for the club Zagłębie Sosnowiec, and the lowest for Jagiellonia Białystok.