Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sports travel


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   redirect to sports tourism. Black Kite (t) (c) 23:40, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Sports travel

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I believe that anything that is worth saving from this article (is there something?) should be moved to Professional sports. As is, this article really has no place. Moving any relevant content to Professional sports is a start, and if that section needs expanding then someone should look at creating this article. Overall, this article is nominated because of the lack of any sources related to the title and the somewhat advertising-ish tone with regard to Gullivers Sports Travel. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 17:34, 19 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I am currently studying tourism at university and we have an entire module on Sports Travel so I was surprised that there is no wikipedia article. Gullivers Sports Travel is known in the module as the people to first do it and they also came up first in google where you can read their story. You can leave that bit out if you think its advertising they are nothing to do with me I just thought it was interesting.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enzo7788 (talk • contribs) 17:39, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Also it is to do with tourism and travel rather than professional sport
 * This is not at all clear in the article. For one, FIFA is professional sports. &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 21:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes but Sports travel caters to professional sport but is essentially a sector of travel and tourism. Not a type or section of professional sport, I wouldn't say? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enzo7788 (talk • contribs) 23:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Shimeru (talk) 07:44, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I think that this can be fixed up (at the moment it looks like an ad for a particular agency. However, the independent source shows that there are businesses that specialize in "sports travel", so I think notability is established. Mandsford 19:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * There may indeed be an industry; why not WP:USERFY this until it becomes a real article, or push the info into professional sport? &mdash; Timneu22 · &#32; talk 21:13, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 22:55, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. I have as yet no comment about keeping or deleting this, but must say that I can't understand why anyone would consider Professional sports a suitable merge target. What connection does sports travel have with professionalism? Is travel to the Olympic Games, in the days when they were officially amateur, not a major part of the topic of sports travel? Phil Bridger (talk) 12:38, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Sports travel caters for people watching the olympics and all sports. I agree it does not come under professional sports, it is a sector of the tourism industry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Enzo7788 (talk • contribs) 15:40, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep or possibly userfy. It seems to be a notable topic even if it is very poorly presented, so it will belong in mainspace eventually. I have no firm opinion on whether that should be now or later. Change to redirect to sports tourism. I hadn't noticed that article. This one looks like unneccesary duplication now. It would however be useful to integrate the reference currently in Sports travel into Sports tourism since that's tagged with "addition sources required". Alzarian16 (talk) 11:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Significant genre of tourism.This one link indicates notability and I'll presently add it to the article. -- Pink Bull  01:49, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * At second thought, the subject seems to exist at Sports tourism. Redirect it there.-- Pink Bull  02:05, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete and redirect to sports tourism. The phenomenon is real and notable but the sports tourism article is more developed and has a better title. There isn't really anything worth keeping in this article. --MidnightDesert (talk) 08:37, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect to sports tourism. I thought that we must have an article on this topic under some title, and MidnightDesert has found it. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:32, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.