Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers is an essential text for anybody studying this unique topic.
- Extensively revised with cutting edge new material based on the latest research in the field.
- International case studies illustrate how theory is used in practice.
- Further development of theoretical explanatory frameworks established by first edition
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
Now in its second edition the text has been further developed to include material on cutting-edge developments in the field and is illustrated by new and extended case studies including a brand new case study on cycling tourism.
Part 1 : Context
Part 2 : Participants
Part 3 : Policy
Part 4 : Providers
Part 5 : Case Studies