Spatial spillovers of sport industry clusters and community resilience: Bridging a spatial lens to building a smart tourism city.

•Sport industry is an available resource in building a resilient, smart tourism city.•Spatial economic modeling and spatial analyses were performed.•Spatial spillover effects of sport industry clusters on community resilience were confirmed.•Spatial information from the spatial analysis can provide information for efficient decision-making for localized specific policymaking.•Policymakers and practitioners should consider the allocation of investment in localized specific strategies and policies.