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 established 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 participants 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 strategiesNow in its second edition the text has been further developed to include material on cutting-edgedevelopments in the field and is illustrated by all new case studies including a chapter on cycling tourism and North American professional team sports. Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers is an essential text for anybody studying this unique topic. Completely revised with cutting edge new material Illustrated with all new international case studies Further development oftheoretical frameworks established by first edition
- ISBN: 978-0-7506-8375-3
- Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha Publicación: 17/02/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés