Many happy returns? The Pro-Bowl, mega-events, and tourism in Hawaii

• Robert W. Baumann ^[1] ; Victor Matheson ^[1]
  1. [1] College of the Holy Cross

     College of the Holy Cross

     City of Worcester, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Tourism economics: the business and finance of tourism and recreation, ISSN 1354-8166, Vol. 23, Nº. 4, 2017, págs. 788-802
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We use daily airplane arrival data from 2004 to 2015 from Hawaii’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to determine the net change in arrivals around a variety of sporting events. We find that only one event generates a positive and significant net impact on airplane arrivals: the Honolulu Marathon, which generates roughly 9800 additional arrivals. No other sporting events result in a measurable increase in arrivals including, notably, the National Football League’s Pro Bowl, which receives the largest subsidy from the state’s tourism authority.