Sports tourism is an economic and social activity that crosses sport and tourism, in which the economic
tourist activity prevails over the sport experience. The main objective of the present work is to evaluate the
importance of sport events for the tourism development of a region, in this case the cycling race tour Volta
a Portugal, in the municipality of Mondim de Basto stage. For this purpose, information was collected
from a sample of 412 respondents, through an online survey. Based on the results obtained, it can be said
that the participants consider the event to be important for the tourism development of the region; are
globally satisfied with the event and intend to return in future editions. Still, there is a direct and positive
relationship between global satisfaction and the intention to participate in an upcoming edition of the
event. As for the estimate of the total economic impact, a value of 1.35 M€ of direct impact, and between
3.7 and 4.4 M€ of total impact.
