Sports Tourism : Participants, Policy and Providers.

By: Bull, ChrisContributor(s): Weed, MikeMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Jordan Hill : Routledge, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (258 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780080474441Subject(s): Sports and tourism | TourismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sports Tourism : Participants, Policy and ProvidersDDC classification: 338.4/791 LOC classification: G155.A1 -- W367 2003ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Sports Tourism Participants, policy and providers -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: the study of sports tourism -- List of Abbreviations -- Part One: Context -- Preface -- 1 Tracing interest in sports tourism -- 2 An overview of the sport-tourism link -- Part Two: Participants -- Preface -- 3 Conceptualizing the sports tourist -- 4 Participant profiles -- 5 A typology of sports tourists -- Part Three: Policy -- Preface -- 6 The policy context -- 7 Prospects for integration -- Part Four: Providers -- Preface -- 8 The market for sports tourism -- 9 Provision strategies -- Part Five: Case Studies -- Preface -- 10 Sports tourism as a diversification strategy in Malta -- 11 Urban sports tourism: the case of Sheffield -- 12 Activity tourism in Wales -- 13 Winter skiing in the European Alps -- Epilogue: the development of research and practice -- References -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Sports Tourism Participants, policy and providers -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: the study of sports tourism -- List of Abbreviations -- Part One: Context -- Preface -- 1 Tracing interest in sports tourism -- 2 An overview of the sport-tourism link -- Part Two: Participants -- Preface -- 3 Conceptualizing the sports tourist -- 4 Participant profiles -- 5 A typology of sports tourists -- Part Three: Policy -- Preface -- 6 The policy context -- 7 Prospects for integration -- Part Four: Providers -- Preface -- 8 The market for sports tourism -- 9 Provision strategies -- Part Five: Case Studies -- Preface -- 10 Sports tourism as a diversification strategy in Malta -- 11 Urban sports tourism: the case of Sheffield -- 12 Activity tourism in Wales -- 13 Winter skiing in the European Alps -- Epilogue: the development of research and practice -- References -- Index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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