UID:
almafu_9959233900302883
Format:
1 online resource (258 p.)
ISBN:
1-136-36420-X
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1-280-96630-0
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9786610966301
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1-4175-0762-4
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0-08-047444-6
Content:
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 participants policy: analyses
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Sports Tourism Participants, policy and providers; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Acknowledgements; Prologue: the study of sports tourism; List of Abbreviations; Part One: Context; Preface; 1 Tracing interest in sports tourism; 2 An overview of the sport-tourism link; Part Two: Participants; Preface; 3 Conceptualizing the sports tourist; 4 Participant profiles; 5 A typology of sports tourists; Part Three: Policy; Preface; 6 The policy context; 7 Prospects for integration; Part Four: Providers; Preface; 8 The market for sports tourism
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9 Provision strategies Part Five: Case Studies; Preface; 10 Sports tourism as a diversification strategy in Malta; 11 Urban sports tourism: the case of Sheffield; 12 Activity tourism in Wales; 13 Winter skiing in the European Alps; Epilogue: the development of research and practice; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7506-5276-4
Language:
English
