Samenvatting

This research report aims to raise awareness towards the need for sustainability in the surf industry, especially in the surf event industry. Thus, the goal of the research was to find out to what extent sustainability is perceived as important by surf event organizers when organizing their surf events.
The study is significant due to the lack of scientific research about the topic of sustainable surf events. Hence, the results of the research are useful for the surf industry, in order to see the importance of sustainability in every sector of the industry and for surf event organizers to see that they play an important role for an overall growth of sustainable consciousness.