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Sports Tourism : Participants, Policy and Providers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (358 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780080942117
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.4/791
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Contents:
Front Cover -- Sports Tourism -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue to the Second Edition -- Part 1: Context -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Tracing the Development of the Sport-tourism Link -- Chapter 2. Contemporary Concepts, Issues and Research -- Part 2: Participants -- Preface -- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing the Sports Tourism Experience -- Chapter 4. Sports Tourism Behaviours and the Trip Decision-Making Process -- Chapter 5. A Sports Tourism Participation Model -- Part 3: Policy -- Preface -- Chapter 6. The Policy Context -- Chapter 7. Prospects for Integration -- Part 4: Providers -- Preface -- Chapter 8. Sports Tourism Products -- Chapter 9. Provision Strategies -- Part 5: Case Studies -- Preface -- Chapter 10. Sports Tourism as a Diversification Strategy in Malta -- Chapter 11. Urban Sports Tourism - The Case of Sheffield -- Chapter 12. Rural Sports Participation Tourism in Wales -- Chapter 13. Winter Skiing in the European Alps -- Chapter 14. Cycling Sports Tourism -- Epilogue - Progress in Sports Tourism? -- 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 establishes sports tourism as a unique area that produces its own unique issues, concerns and controversies. Now in its second edition, with cutting edge new material based on the latest research in the field this book uses recent international case studies to illustrate how theory is used in practice.
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Front Cover -- Sports Tourism -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue to the Second Edition -- Part 1: Context -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Tracing the Development of the Sport-tourism Link -- Chapter 2. Contemporary Concepts, Issues and Research -- Part 2: Participants -- Preface -- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing the Sports Tourism Experience -- Chapter 4. Sports Tourism Behaviours and the Trip Decision-Making Process -- Chapter 5. A Sports Tourism Participation Model -- Part 3: Policy -- Preface -- Chapter 6. The Policy Context -- Chapter 7. Prospects for Integration -- Part 4: Providers -- Preface -- Chapter 8. Sports Tourism Products -- Chapter 9. Provision Strategies -- Part 5: Case Studies -- Preface -- Chapter 10. Sports Tourism as a Diversification Strategy in Malta -- Chapter 11. Urban Sports Tourism - The Case of Sheffield -- Chapter 12. Rural Sports Participation Tourism in Wales -- Chapter 13. Winter Skiing in the European Alps -- Chapter 14. Cycling Sports Tourism -- Epilogue - Progress in Sports Tourism? -- 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 establishes sports tourism as a unique area that produces its own unique issues, concerns and controversies. Now in its second edition, with cutting edge new material based on the latest research in the field this book uses recent international case studies to illustrate how theory is used in practice.

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