| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index. |
| Contents |
The study of sports tourism -- Tracing interest in sports tourism -- An overview of the sport-tourism link -- Conceptualizing the sports tourist -- Participant profiles -- A typology of sports tourists -- The policy context -- Prospects for integration -- The market for sports tourism -- Provision strategies -- Sports tourism as a diversification strategy in Malta -- Urban sports tourism : the case of Sheffield -- Activity tourism in Wales -- Winter skiing in the European Alps -- The development of research and practice. |
| 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 participantspolicy: analyses the response by policy makers to this phenomen. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sports and tourism.
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Sports and tourism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bull, Chris (Chris J.)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weed, Mike. Sports tourism. Oxford [England] ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann, ©2004 0750652764 (DLC) 2003055840 (OCoLC)52877298 |
| ISBN |
1417507624 (electronic book) |
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9781417507627 (electronic book) |
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