Sports Tourism

ISBN-13: 9780750652766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 258 str.

Mike Weed; Chris Bull

Opis

Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers is an unparalleled text that explains sports tourism as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon that stems from the unique interaction of activity, people and place. Unlike other texts, it seeks to present sports tourism as a unique area, which produces its own unique issues, concerns and controversies. The text tackles these issues from three viewpoints: - Participants: examining the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sports tourists to create a typology of participants. - Policy: analyses the response by policy makers to this phenomenon and the problems of achieving integration between two sectors with historically different cultures. - Providers: their motivations, aims, objectives and strategies. Illustrated by international case studies in each chapter, and with four extended case study chapters, Sports Tourism examines this area using real life experiences and concrete evidence.

Recenzje

"'Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy, and Providers' is an excellent resource for the in-depth exploration of the emerging field of sports tourism... the authors' use of international examples to support their assertions and discussions make this a book that will be valuable to people of all nationalities."
- Sarah E. Hardin, Southeast Missouri State University, USA

Spis treści

Context; Tracing interest in sports tourism; An overview of the sport-tourism link: Participants - Conceptualising the sports tourist; Participant profiles; A typology of sports tourists: Policy - The policy context; Prospects for integration: Providers -The market for sports tourism; Provision strategies: Case studies - Sports tourism as a diversification Strategy in Malta; Urban sports tourism: the case of Sheffield; Activity tourism in Wales; Winter skiing in the European Alps

O autorze

Mike Weed, Chris Bull