Description
Book SynopsisThe links between high profile sports events and tourism are increasingly apparent, yet comparatively little attention has been paid to lower profile sports-related travel. Developing this type of travel provides clear economic and social impacts - employment opportunities, investment, development, the foundation of new infrastructure and the improvement and reinforcement of local communities. Sport and Tourism offers a comprehensive analysis of how and why interorganizational cooperation between sports and tourism occurs to develop tourist destinations.
Considering new strategies and crisis management programs, the chapter authors cover a range of sports from football and cycling to winter sports and hiking in countries around the world, such as China, Croatia, Greece, India, Italy, Malaysia, Portugal, UK and Slovakia. In confronting growing concerns around environmental, social and economic issues facing sports and tourism, this collection presents different perspectives to develop new plans for future needs and problems.
Sport and Tourism provides an opportunity to stimulate academic research on the relationship between sport and tourism with multidisciplinary approaches. Furthermore, this work encourages discussion among international scholars on how to stimulate cooperation strategies on sport and tourism to develop tourist destinations.
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Mapping the Research Trends on Sports Tourism and Sustainability: A Bibliometric Analysis; Suneel Kumar, Marco Valeri, Varinder Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, and Isha Kumari Bhatt
Chapter 2. Brand Love as a Trigger of Sport Tourism: A Study in Portuguese Football; Ana João Peixoto, Vasco Ribeiro Santos, and Bruno Barbosa Sousa
Chapter 3. Sports Tourism in the Covid-19 Era; Panoraia Poulaki, Antonios Kritikos, Nikolaos Vasilakis, and Marco Valeri
Chapter 4. Progress in Sports and Event Tourism Research: A Review Study; Shekhar and Marco Valeri
Chapter 5. Winter Sports Mega-Event Destination Experience: An Experience Economy Model Perspective During the post-COVID-19 Pandemic; Bob Yi-Chen Duan, Jingjing Dai, and Emily Ma
Chapter 6. Hiking Tourism in Greece; Panoraia Poulaki, Stylianos Bouzis, Nikolaos Vasilakis, and Marco Valeri
Chapter 7. Assessing the Impact of a Sports Event from Big Data; Vincenzo Asero and Simona Gozzo
Chapter 8. Profiling Trail Runners by Experience-Use-History, Environmental Consciousness and Travel Carbon Footprint; Hrvoje Grofelnik, Marko Perić, and Nicholas Wise
Chapter 9. A Business Network Model for the Development of Cycle Tourism in a Destination; Vincenzo Asero and Sandro Billi
Chapter 10. Tourist Motivation Factors towards Health and Wellness Tourism in Malaysia: A Case Study of Marathon Events in Kuala Lumpur; Nurul Farah Izzah Zailani, Ahmad Albattat, Sin Yee Wong, Mohammad Haziq Md Nazri, and Nini Shaliza Mohd Zuraimi
Chapter 11. Is Marathon a Sport Tourism Event? The Authentic Athens Marathon; Evangelia Kasimati and Vincenzo Asero
Chapter 12. Sport Venues as Sport Tourism Destinations: Examining a Dynamic Multilinked Leisure Proposal; Ourania P. Vrondou
Chapter 13. European Union Managing Tourism and Sport: The Attitudes of EU Citizens on Sport and Physical Activity; Marian Šuplata
