Mega-sport events continue to attract interest from potential hosts around the world. The belief is that these events bring the host city and country not only prestige but also economic benefits, notably tourism. A decade ago, Fourie and Santana-Gallego (2011) published a seminal paper that defined a gravity model for tourism demand to estimate the impact of six mega-sport events on international tourism for the period 1995–2006. This paper updates and expands their analysis by adding more observations (for the period 1995–2019), more events (eleven mega-sport events), testing new hypotheses and by using more advanced econometric methods. New results confirm some earlier findings, question others and reveal that, because of the selection panel's preference for developed countries to host mega-sport events, the impact of these events on inbound tourism is likely to be smaller in future.

大型体育赛事继续吸引世界各地潜在主办方的兴趣。人们相信，这些活动不仅为主办城市和国家带来了声望，而且还带来了经济利益，尤其是旅游业。十年前，Fourie 和 Santana-Gallego (2011) 发表了一篇开创性的论文，定义了旅游需求的引力模型，以估计 1995-2006 年期间六项大型体育赛事对国际旅游业的影响。本文通过添加更多观察结果（1995-2019 年）、更多事件（11 项大型体育赛事）、测试新假设以及使用更先进的计量经济学方法来更新和扩展他们的分析。新结果证实了一些早期的调查结果，质疑其他调查结果并表明，由于遴选小组倾向于发达国家举办大型体育赛事，