Research Catalog

Title

Sports tourism : participants, policy and providers / Mike Weed and Chris Bull.

Author

Weed, Mike

Publication

Amsterdam ; Boston ; London : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bull, Chris (Chris J.)

Description

xix, 351 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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 establishes 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 participation model, 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"--Publisher.

Subject

Sports and tourism

Note

• Previous ed.: 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-336) and index.

Contents

Tracing the development of the sport-tourism link -- Contemporary concepts, issues and research -- Conceptualizing the sports tourism experience -- Sports tourism behaviours and the trip decision-making process -- A sports tourism participation model -- The policy context -- Prospects for integration -- Sports tourism products -- Provision strategies -- Sports tourism as a diversification strategy in Malta -- Urban sports tourism : the case of Sheffield -- Rural sports participation tourism in Wales -- Winter skiing in the European Alps -- Cycling sports tourism.

ISBN

• 9780750683753 (pbk.)
• 0750683759 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 260207473
• SCSB-11033820

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library