Sports Tourism

"Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers" 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 strategies.

This is a unique text, covering the subject in unprecedented depth.

Extended case study chapters provide practical illustrations of the conceptual frameworks and theories.

A substantial area of the book is underpinned by extensive empirical data and primary research.