ABSTRACT
The previous chapter has set out the policy context within which the sport and tourism sectors operate, outlining in the process the usefulness of ideas associated with policy communities and developing a Model of Cross-Sectoral Policy Development as a theoretical framework with which to understand this context. Examining sport-tourism policy using the policy community concept is useful because the model developed is a fluid one, which can be adapted in order to be a useful explanatory tool in a range of countries where the nature of the policy process differs. The model allows, for example, for dominant member interests to be professional, governmental or economic (i.e. commercial), thus the model is useful in describing both the sports policy community in the USA, where commercial interests dominate, and in Canada, where governmental interests are more prominent. Such flexibility allows disparate policy processes to be understood in a consistent way and, consequently, provides a very useful backdrop for the discussions in this chapter which seek to further develop an understanding of the sport-tourism policy process and to focus particularly on the prospects for greater integration between sport and tourism policy communities throughout the world
