The Impact of the UEFA Women's EURO on Hotel Overnight Stays: Evidence from a Causal Analysis
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| author | Wallimann, Hannes Mehr, Anna |
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| contents | The impact evaluation of female sports events remains an important yet neglected area of research. To fill this gap, this working paper provides a timely assessment of the 2025 UEFA Women's European Championship (WEURO) in Switzerland-the largest women-specific sports event in Europe with more than 657,000 spectators. Using city-level data on hotel overnight stays, we apply the Synthetic Difference-in-Differences approach of Arkhangelsky et al. (2021) to compare WEURO host cities with non-host destinations. In summary, our results do not support strong claims of large tourism impacts but rather point to a small positive effect. Sensitivity analyses also suggest positive effects. However, confidence intervals permit firm conclusions only for the main venues, indicating an increase in overnight stays of 1.6% attributable to the WEURO. Overall, our findings indicate positive but modest tourism impacts of the WEURO and outline a framework for further policy evaluation of sports events. |
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| spellingShingle | The Impact of the UEFA Women's EURO on Hotel Overnight Stays: Evidence from a Causal Analysis Wallimann, Hannes Mehr, Anna General Economics Economics The impact evaluation of female sports events remains an important yet neglected area of research. To fill this gap, this working paper provides a timely assessment of the 2025 UEFA Women's European Championship (WEURO) in Switzerland-the largest women-specific sports event in Europe with more than 657,000 spectators. Using city-level data on hotel overnight stays, we apply the Synthetic Difference-in-Differences approach of Arkhangelsky et al. (2021) to compare WEURO host cities with non-host destinations. In summary, our results do not support strong claims of large tourism impacts but rather point to a small positive effect. Sensitivity analyses also suggest positive effects. However, confidence intervals permit firm conclusions only for the main venues, indicating an increase in overnight stays of 1.6% attributable to the WEURO. Overall, our findings indicate positive but modest tourism impacts of the WEURO and outline a framework for further policy evaluation of sports events. |
| title | The Impact of the UEFA Women's EURO on Hotel Overnight Stays: Evidence from a Causal Analysis |
| topic | General Economics Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21421 |