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This paper conducts a systematic search for peer-reviewed research published in the five years from the beginning of 2000 to the end of 2004, and identifies 80 articles that fall within its established search criteria. The systematic review establishes the range of activities that contemporary peer-reviewed sports tourism research has investigated, and the different aspects of the relationship between sport and tourism that have been examined. Following this, the meta-evaluation considers the significance of research questions that sports tourism research asks, the appropriateness of methodologies and methods used in sports tourism research, and the extent to which contemporary sports tourism research can be said to represent a body of knowledge, as opposed to a collection of unconnected individual studies. The conclusion of the meta-evaluation is that greater epistemological and methodological diversity is needed in sports tourism research, and that researchers need to give greater consideration to how their individual studies contribute to the development of knowledge in the area as a whole.
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