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