ABSTRACT
An examination of policy responses to the sport-tourism link suffers from a ‘double dearth’ in terms of supporting literature. While the previous chapters of this book have provided an overview of sports tourism and analysed in detail the motivations and profiles of sports tourists, in comparison to other areas of study the area of sports tourism, while growing, is not particularly well served by a significant body of literature. Similarly, although leisure studies is now a relatively established field of academic analysis, there is still surprisingly little literature relating to the dynamics of the leisure policy process. With the exception of work such as that by Henry (1993; 2001) on the politics of leisure policy, which focuses more on ideological concerns than the dynamics of the policy process, examples of the limited work in this area are those by Houlihan (1991; 1994; 1997) on sport, and Hall (1994) and Hall and Jenkins (1995) on tourism. Furthermore, while the work of these authors is useful in informing an examination of sport-tourism policy, they do not extend their analysis beyond sport and tourism respectively, nor do they look in any detail at cross-sectoral liaison.
