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Sports Tourism

Chris Bull author Mike Weed author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:29th Oct '03

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* A unique text, covering the subject in unprecedented depth. * Extended case study chapters provide practical illustrations of the conceptual frameworks and theories. * Substantial areas of the book underpinned by extensive empirical data and primary research.

Tackles sports tourism issues from three viewpoints: participants; policy and providers. This work examines the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sports tourists to create a typology of participants. It analyses the response by policy makers to this phenomenon, and also motivations, aims, objectives and strategies of providers.

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 that 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: participants, policy and providers examines this area using real life experiences and concrete evidence.

"'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

ISBN: 9780750652766

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 640g

258 pages