Sport & tourism (2008)

The last decade has seen a significant growth in the quantity of published research in the fields related to sport and tourism. ‘Sport & Tourism: A Reader’ from Routledge offers the field’s first comprehensive review. Articles selected for the reader cover a broad range of contemporary research in the field of sport tourism, including diverse areas such as the economic analysis of sports events, leveraging strategies, sub-cultures and identity, adventure tourism and policy and marketing. This book is in four parts, each introduced with a substantial new introduction by the editor. Throughout the text the key themes and new conceptual thinking defining sports tourism are set out. In four parts, the reader examines: Sport & Tourism Research Approaches, Understanding the Sports Tourist, Impacts of Sport & Tourism, Policy and Management Considerations for Sport & Tourism.