Sports Tourism
Participants, Policy and Providers
- 1st Edition - October 29, 2003
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Authors: Chris Bull, Mike Weed
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 7 4 4 4 - 1
Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers tackles these issues from three viewpoints:* participants: examining the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sp… Read more
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Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers 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.
* 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.
* A unique text, covering the subject in unprecedented depth.
* Extended case study chapters provide practical illustrations of the conceptual frameworks and theories.
* Substantial areas of the book underpinned by extensive empirical data and primary research.
* Extended case study chapters provide practical illustrations of the conceptual frameworks and theories.
* Substantial areas of the book underpinned by extensive empirical data and primary research.
Final year undergraduates and postgraduate students taking modules on sports tourism as part of leisure management studies; sports management studies and tourism management studies courses; PhD students and researchers in sports tourism
Context; Tracing interest in sports tourism; An overview of the sport-tourism link: Participants - Conceptualising the sports tourist; Participant profiles; A typology of sports tourists: Policy - The policy context; Prospects for integration: Providers -The market for sports tourism; Provision strategies: Case studies - Sports tourism as a diversification Strategy in Malta; Urban sports tourism: the case of Sheffield; Activity tourism in Wales; Winter skiing in the European Alps
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 29, 2003
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Language: English
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Chris Bull
Affiliations and expertise
Head of the Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure at Canterbury Christ Church University, UKMW
Mike Weed
Affiliations and expertise
Director of the Centre for Sport, Physical Education & Activity Research (SPEAR), Canterbury Christ Church University, UK