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.
Autorentext
Mike Weed, Chris Bull
Zusammenfassung
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 participantspolicy: analyses the response by policy makers to this phenomenon and the problems of achieving integration between two sectors with historically different culturesproviders: their motivations, aims, objectives and strategiesIllustrated 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.
Inhalt
Part 1 Context; Chapter 1 Tracing interest in sports tourism; Chapter 2 An overview of the sport-tourism link; Part 2 Participants; Chapter 3 Conceptualizing the sports tourist; Chapter 4 Participant profiles; Chapter 5 A typology of sports tourists; Part 3 Policy; Chapter 6 The policy context; Chapter 7 Prospects for integration; Part 4 Providers; Chapter 8 The market for sports tourism; Chapter 9 Provision strategies; Part 5 Case Studies; Chapter 10 Sports tourism as a diversification strategy in Malta; Chapter 11 Urban sports tourism: the case of Sheffield; Chapter 12 Activity tourism in Wales; Chapter 13 Winter skiing in the European Alpsepilogue Epilogue: the development of research and practice;