Tourism and Cricket

The perspectives on these changes of the game are insightful and intriguing, making Tourism and Cricket: Travels to the Boundary an engaging and enjoyable read. Although scholarly in nature, the book presents an insightful variety of perspectives that engages and would appeal to a wide array of readers. Cricket fanatics would find the different perspectives enlightening and general sports readers would likely find the book to be a most enjoyable read. However, Tourism and Cricket: Travels to the Boundary would also be of interest to sports researchers and would serve as an excellent resource for both undergraduate and graduate level courses that attend to sport, tourism, and leisure.

-- Clive N. Hickson, University of Alberta, Canada * Annals of Leisure Research, 20:2, 243-244 *

This excellent book presents the reader with a fascinating collection of essays which have been expertly integrated by the craft of Baum and Butler's editorship. They deliver a volume that pushes the boundaries in exploring the diverse manifestations of tourism arising from unique cultural creations of the sport of cricket. This is a must-read for those with interests in the intersections of sport, history, culture, identity and tourism.

* James Higham, University of Otago, New Zealand *

Offering perspectives on the links between an international sport and tourism mobilities, the contributors to this book fully engage the reader, combining insightful analyses with typical cricketing humour and irreverence. An excellent read for anyone wishing to appreciate the interdependence of tourism and sport participation.

* Larry Dwyer, University of New South Wales, Australia *

From Witney Scrotum to the Gabba and from homesickness to nostalgia – a few of the words which frame this exciting book. It takes its readers on travels in time and space, exploring the Barmy Army to cricket in Indonesia. Applying ethnographic and sociological methods Tourism and Cricket is a 'must read' for fans and students of sport, cricket and tourism.

* John Bale, Emeritus Professor of Sports Geography, Keele University,