ABSTRACT
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 establishes sports tourism as a unique area that produces its own unique issues, concerns and controversies. Extensively revised with cutting edge new material based on the latest research in the field, this edition uses recent international case studies to illustrate how theory is used in practice. The text tackles the complex and distinctive issues this sector faces from three viewpoints:
- participants: examining the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sports tourists to create a participation model
- policy: analyzes 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.
Now in its second edition, this book is an essential resource for those studying, teaching or working in sports tourism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |54 pages
Context
chapter |24 pages
Tracing the Development of the Sport – Tourism Link
chapter |28 pages
Contemporary Concepts, Issues and Research
part |69 pages
Participants
chapter |20 pages
Conceptualizing the Sports Tourism Experience
chapter |30 pages
Sports Tourism Behaviours and the Trip Decision-Making Process
chapter |17 pages
A Sports Tourism Participation Model
part |40 pages
Policy
chapter |18 pages
The Policy Context
chapter |20 pages
Prospects for Integration
part |41 pages
Providers
chapter |21 pages
Sports Tourism Products
chapter |17 pages
Provision Strategies
part |85 pages
Case Studies
chapter |13 pages
Sports Tourism as a Diversification Strategy in Malta
chapter |14 pages
Urban Sports Tourism – The Case of Sheffield
chapter |19 pages
Rural Sports Participation Tourism in Wales
chapter |15 pages
Winter Skiing in the European Alps
chapter |19 pages
Cycling Sports Tourism
part |5 pages
Epilogue – Progress in Sports Tourism?