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Sports and Development

Sport
Sport can be defined as an activity involving physical exertion or skill in which an individual or team competes against another or teams.

Leisure
This is time spent away from business, work and chores.

Recreation
This can be defined as activity done during ones leisure time. These activities are usually uncompetitive.

Play
This refers to the engagement in amusement, sport or other recreation. Sport can be used for international and individual development, benefits of sport at community level and also at national and therefore regional levels.

Sport Development is a fashionable term?

It increases equity, particularly for teen sports. Develops positive attributes: team work, resolve conflicts. It increases productivity.

How does sport contribute to development? - Errol Morrison.

Job Creation
Generation of income through income and sporting camps. All round development. Discipline. Enhancement of economic development.

Generation of Income
Sports tourism. Increase in revenue. Salaries for players. Employment.

Sports Tourism
This refers specifically to trips taken to follow or watch a sporting event.

Sporting Events in the Caribbean

Test cricket/ one day internationals. CARIFTA Games. Tobago International Cycling Classic. UWI Spec International Marathon. CWC -2007

Impact of Sport Tourism

Earning of foreign exchange. Increase in employment opportunity. Increase in taxation revenue. Conservation of facilities.

Challenges in Sport Tourism

Tobago Case - 12 sporting events for events calendar. -Goat Race: Tobago Calendar International Cycling Classic. Readiness of health facilities. Readiness of sporting facilities. Availability of police and fire services.

Health and Fitness

Improve physical fitness. Greater endurance. Improvement in strength. Lower rates of heart disease, obesity and stroke.

Caribbean Identity
Pride for Caribbean people. Potential for Nation Building.

Discipline and Morale

High moral character. Sports demand fair play, honesty and endurance.

Educational opportunities
Sports scholarships. Funding grants. Professional careers in sport. Sport administration.