Sport Tourism and Sustainable Destinations

ISBN-13: 9780367513832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Brent D. Moyle; Tom Hinch; James Higham

Opis

This edited volume features chapters that provide valuable insights into the sustainability of sport tourism destinations at local, regional, state and national levels, with contributions from studies undertaken in the USA, South America, the UK, Canada, Europe and South Africa. The chapters originally published in the Journal of Sport & Tourism.

Spis treści

1. Sport tourism and sustainable destinations: foundations and pathways T. D. Hinch, J. E. S. Higham & B. D. Moyle 2. The role of travel conditions in cycling tourism: implications for destination and event management Richard J. Buning and Heather J. Gibson 3. Surf localism in Costa Rica: exploring territoriality among Costa Rican and foreign resident surfers Lindsay E. Usher and Edwin Gómez 4. Local identities in a global game: the social production of football space in Liverpool Daniel Evans and Glen Norcliffe 5. Factors effecting destination and event loyalty: examining the sustainability of a recurrent small-scale running event at Banff National Park Elizabeth A. Halpenny, Cory Kulczycki and Farhad Moghimehfar 6. Leveraging sport heritage to promote tourism destinations: the case of the Tour of Flanders Cyclo event Inge Derom and Gregory Ramshaw 7. Serious about leisure, serious about destinations: mountain bikers and destination attractiveness Julie Moularde and Adam Weaver 8. Sports tourism development and destination sustainability: the case of the coastal area of the Aveiro region, Portugal Maria João Carneiro, Zélia Breda and Catarina Cordeiro 9. Motivation of active sport tourists in a German highland destination – a cross-seasonal comparison Alexander Hodeck and Gregor Hovemann 10. Determining the influence of the social versus physical context on environmentally responsible behaviour among cycling spectators E. A. du Preez and E. T. Heath

O autorze

Brent Moyle is a Mid-Career Advance Queensland Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University, Australia. Dr Moyle’s research focuses on three interrelated research streams, sustainable tourism, experience design and evaluation and sports tourism. He is an Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University (Australia).

Tom Hinch applies a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of sport tourism, leisure and conceptually related fields. Porfessor Hinch has a core research focus centred on advancing knowledge surrounding the way sport travellers understand the places they visit. He is a visiting Professor, Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University (Japan).

James Higham is a Professor specializing in tourism, environmental change, with long standing contributions to the field of sports tourism. He is the Co-Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism and holds the positions of Visiting Professor of Sustainable Tourism at the University of Stavanger (Norway), and Jim Whyte Fellow, University of Queensland (Australia).