Tangible Immovable Sport Heritage: These include stadia, monuments, memorials and landscapes that cannot be relocated or authentically replicated anywhere else.
Tangible Movable Sport Heritage: Which include museum/halls of fame exhibitions that are not permanently in situ and sporting events that are not tied to one particular location.
Living Heritage: Interestingly, heritage sport also looks specifically at the heritage value attached to humans and animals. In doing so, it explores the concepts of athlete commodification, enshrinement, remembrance, recognition and legacy.
Intangible Sport Heritage: There are also many forms of sport heritage that cannot be touched. These include the traditions, the smells, and one's personal sense of belonging (the intangibility of sports heritage).
Institutional Heritage: Lastly, heritage sport looks at the many institutions (political, religious, and educational) attached to the delivery of regular sporting competitions and once-in-a-lifetime tournaments.

One intriguing aspect about heritage sport is its reference to the global consumption and conservation of sports-related heritage as a local commodity (for residents and tourists), marketers (sport and tourism-based) and resource managers.

While sport heritage, and the tourism it generates, shares many similarities to other forms of heritage, we are reminded that there are some very distinctive features to sport heritage, namely that much of the fabric of sport heritage — and, indeed, much of what attracts tourists to experience it — are the athletes themselves and the sporting feats they have achieved.

Few cultural processes are celebrated like sport, and few activities are as widely disseminated, replayed, and relived as sport. The heroes and the sporting moments they create then, become artefacts, and though we can relive and replay the achievement (and, in a sense, preserve the moment(s) in time, perhaps through both personal memory and vicariously through media) we cannot preserve “the object” in the same way that we might other forms of tangible heritage.

heritage tourism

How sport shapes our understanding of heritage and cultural identity