Sport & Tourism: A Reader

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Mike Weed
Routledge, Oct 31, 2007 - Business & Economics - 596 pages

This Reader provides comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature in sports tourism. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by a substantial introduction from the editor, it presents the key themes, state of the art research and new conceptual thinking in sports tourism studies. Topics covered include:

  • understanding the sports tourist
  • impacts of sports tourism
  • policy and management considerations for sports tourism
  • approaches to research in sports tourism

Articles cover a broad range of the new research that has a bearing on sports tourism and include diverse areas such as the economic analysis of sports events, sub-cultures in sports tourism, adventure tourism and tourism policy.

 

Contents

General introduction
1
PART ONE Sport Tourism research approaches
7
Understanding the sports tourist
113
Impacts of Sport Tourism
291
Policy and management considerations for Sport Tourism
411
Endpiece
569
Index
573
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Mike Weed is Professor of Sport in Society and Director of Research in the Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the Editor of the Journal of Sport & Tourism.

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