Sports tourism participants, policy and providers /
Weed, Mike.
Sports tourism participants, policy and providers / [electronic resource] : Mike Weed and Chris Bull. - 2nd ed. - Amsterdam ; London : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009. - xix, 351 p. : ill.
Previous ed.: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The authors present sports tourism as a unique area that produces its own issues, concerns and controversies. The study is based upon a set of international case studies and includes four extended and detailed case study chapters. 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. Extensively revised with cutting edge new material based on the latest research in the field, this edition uses recent international case studies to illustrate how theory is used in practice. The text tackles the complex and distinctive issues this sector faces from three viewpoints: participants: examining the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sports tourists to create a participation model policy: analyzes 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, this book is an essential resource for those studying, teaching or working in sports tourism.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780080942117 (e-book)
Sports and tourism.
Travel and Tourism.
Industry & industrial studies
Hospitality & service industries
Sport: general
Travel & holiday
Electronic books.
G155
338.4791
Sports tourism participants, policy and providers / [electronic resource] : Mike Weed and Chris Bull. - 2nd ed. - Amsterdam ; London : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009. - xix, 351 p. : ill.
Previous ed.: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The authors present sports tourism as a unique area that produces its own issues, concerns and controversies. The study is based upon a set of international case studies and includes four extended and detailed case study chapters. 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. Extensively revised with cutting edge new material based on the latest research in the field, this edition uses recent international case studies to illustrate how theory is used in practice. The text tackles the complex and distinctive issues this sector faces from three viewpoints: participants: examining the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sports tourists to create a participation model policy: analyzes 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, this book is an essential resource for those studying, teaching or working in sports tourism.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780080942117 (e-book)
Sports and tourism.
Travel and Tourism.
Industry & industrial studies
Hospitality & service industries
Sport: general
Travel & holiday
Electronic books.
G155
338.4791
