Sports Tourism, 2e

Praise for the first edition: <br>"'Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy, and Providers' is an excellent resource for the in-depth exploration of the emerging field of sports tourism. The authors succeed in their original purpose, which is to move beyond the simple origins and links of the sport tourism field into the more complex issues of stakeholder characteristics, policy, and strategy... the authors' use of international examples to support their assertions and discussions make this a book that will be valuable to people of all nationalities." <br>- Sarah E. Hardin, Southeast Missouri State University, USA <br>"This book is an important contribution to the area of sports tourism, responding well to the educational needs of a rapidly growing market segment of the tousim industry. I would strongly recommend it for any reading list on sports tourism at both undergradaute and postgraduate level.<br>- Richard Shipway, Bournemouth University, UK

Professor Mike Weed is Director of the Centre for Sport, Physical Education andActivity Research (SPEAR) and Faculty Research Director for the Faculty of Social andApplied Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is Editor of the Journal of Sport andTourism and author of Olympic Tourism (Elsevier) Dr Chris Bull is Head of the Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He has over 30 years' experience as a teacher, researcher and consultant in the field of tourism, sport and leisure.

It is intended to retain the structure of the book from the first edition. Of course, the prologue and epilogue will be updated in light of changes elsewhere in the text. Key changes to the chapters are outlined below: PART ONE: CONTEXT The first chapter of the book, Tracing Interest in Sports Tourism is essentially a brief historical overview of the development of sports tourism and as such will remain largely untouched. However, the second chapter in this first part, An Overview of the Sports Tourism Link, will be substantially updated to include more recent research on the implications of linking sport and tourism. PART TWO: PARTICIPANTS Part two commences with chapter three, Conceptualising the Sports Tourist, which examines motivations for sports tourism, and the interaction of participants with place. Two key developments in this chapter will be a further development of the material on place, and a discussion of cultural motivations for sports tourism (to supplement the discussions of physical, interpersonal and status & prestige motivations from the first edition). In addition, a discussion of 'vicarious' sports tourism experiences will take place. Chapter four, which discusses Participant Profiles, will undergo a general updating. Finally in this part, chapter five, A Typology of Sports Tourists will be developed further to reflect the changes made in chapters three and four, and this will include modifications to the 'Sports Tourism Participation Model'. PART THREE: POLICY The first chapter in this part, The Policy Context (chapter six), will undergo a general updating, with exemplars being updated to reflect changes to policy structures since the first edition. Chapter Seven, Prospects for Integration, will be developed to discuss the success or failure of more recent policy initiatives for linking sport and tourism, and the 'prospects' aspect of the discussion will be updated to reflect this. This will involve changes, in the light of more recent empirical research, to the 'Policy Matrix for Sport and Tourism' which outlines the range of areas in which policy makers for sport and for tourism might reasonably be expected to collaborate. PART FOUR: PROVIDERS In part two (as noted above), a discussion of 'vicarious' sports tourism experiences will be introduced. As a result, the development of the 'Model of Sports Tourism Types' in chapter eight, The Market for Sports Tourism, will be updated to include 'vicarious' participation as a potential feature of sports tourism types. Chapter Nine, which in addition to discussing Provision Strategies, is also the final substantive chapter of the book, will reflect the various changes included in the previous eight chapters in an updated discussion of strategies in which the range of examples used will also be updated. PART FIVE: CASE STUDIES A key update for a second edition of STPPP will be the addition of two further case study chapters. Of course, chapters ten (Diversification in Malta), eleven (Urban Sports Tourism in Sheffield), twelve (Activity Tourism in Wales), and thirteen (Winter Skiing in the European Alps) will be generally updated. However, case studies of Cycling Tourism and North American Professional Team Sports will be added as chapters fifteen and sixteen. A chapter on cycle tourism will focus on both informal cycling holidays and travel to compete in cycle events. Unlike the other case study chapters, it will focus on participants rather than the place in which cycle tourism takes place, and as such will illustrate the material discussed in part two of the book. The chapter on North American Professional Team Sports will examine the tourism impacts of such professional franchises, as well as the behaviours of travelling spectators, the policy imperatives in keeping or attracting franchises, and the peculiar nature of such franchises as providers. As such, it is a useful final case study as it draws together material from all parts of the book.