Sports tourism : participants, policy and providers / Mike Weed and Chris Bull.
2004
G155.A1 W367 2004eb
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Title
Sports tourism : participants, policy and providers / Mike Weed and Chris Bull.
Author
ISBN
1417507624 (electronic bk.)
9781417507627 (electronic bk.)
0750652764
9780750652766
9780080474441 (e-book ; PDF)
0080474446
9781136364204 (e-book ; PDF)
113636420X
9781136364150 (e-book ; Mobi)
1136364153
9781136364198 (e-book ; ePub)
1136364196
9781417507627 (electronic bk.)
0750652764
9780750652766
9780080474441 (e-book ; PDF)
0080474446
9781136364204 (e-book ; PDF)
113636420X
9781136364150 (e-book ; Mobi)
1136364153
9781136364198 (e-book ; ePub)
1136364196
Imprint
Oxford [England] ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann, ©2004.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 241 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4324/9780080474441 doi
Call Number
G155.A1 W367 2004eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)55627813
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Source of Description
Print version record.
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Print version: Weed, Mike. Sports tourism. Oxford [England] ; Burlington, MA : Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann, ©2004
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