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...