Sport provides a unique, dynamic and intriguing focus for the study of tourism. Sports tourism influences travel patterns, sports and tourism locations, the meanings ascribed to destinations and impacts on the landscape. This chapter presented an overview on the dynamics of sports tourism over the long term. It started with a discussion of tourism and sport life cycles. The chapter highlighted that while traditional patriot games like the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup and the traditional competitive sports that they represent continue to grow, they do so at a slower rate than less competitive individual adventure and lifestyle sports such as climbing. This was followed by heritage-based sport travel with a focus on prestige sports events. Heritage sports tourism represents another major dynamic in the temporal dimension of sports tourism, which has driven tourists to seek out their idealised pasts by visiting places infused with sport heritage and by participating in programmes that bring the past to life. This is a special type of interaction in which sport heritage and nostalgia serve as a tourist attraction. Examples included travel to visit sport halls of fame, sites of past sporting events and imagined pasts played out through fantasy sport camps and programmes. In the long term, climate change will have a major impact on the spatial and temporal distribution of sport and tourism at the global and regional levels. By studying trends that exist within the external environment, sports tourism managers will be in a better position to set sustainable sports tourism development goals and objectives, and to develop effective plans of action. The pursuit of sustainable development through sport-related tourism requires that these trends are recognised, understood, and acted upon.