Sport Tourism and Sustainable Destinations by Moyle, Brent; Hinch, Tom; Higham, James;

Short description:

This edited volume features chapters that provide valuable insights into the sustainability of sport tourism destinations at local, regional, state and national levels, with contributions from studies undertaken in the USA, South America, the UK, Canada, Europe and South Africa. The chapters originally published in the Journal of Sport & Tourism.

Long description:

Destinations include the places, landscapes and communities where sport tourism development takes place. Whether sport tourism development takes the form of sport events, active participation in sport, and/or sports nostalgia/heritage, it draws on local resources, forms part of the complex dynamic of daily life. As such, sports tourism has implications for residents, with destination communities in a position to benefit from, or absorb the costs of, the extent to which development is sustainable. Subsequently, this book features contributions that focus on sport tourism and destination sustainability. Issues covered include, though are not limited to, destination management, surf localism, the production of space, event sustainability in national parks, utilisation of sport heritage for destination promotion, enhancing the attractiveness of destinations through sport tourism, destination development and sport tourism, utilising sport to motivate travel to destinations and environmentally responsible behaviour in sports tourism destinations. The unique contribution of this edited volume is the multi-disciplinary approach applied to enhance conceptual understanding of issues surrounding sport tourism and destination sustainability.

The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of Sport & Tourism.

"The book is an important contribution to an academic field that will grow in interest in the coming years, since sport tourism is expanding and the issue of sustainability is more important than ever."

Aage Radmann, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

Table of Contents:

1. Sport tourism and sustainable destinations: foundations and pathways T. D. Hinch, J. E. S. Higham & B. D. Moyle 2. The role of travel conditions in cycling tourism: implications for destination and event management Richard J. Buning and Heather J. Gibson 3. Surf localism in Costa Rica: exploring territoriality among Costa Rican and foreign resident surfers Lindsay E. Usher and Edwin Gómez 4. Local identities in a global game: the social production of football space in Liverpool Daniel Evans and Glen Norcliffe 5. Factors effecting destination and event loyalty: examining the sustainability of a recurrent small-scale running event at Banff National Park Elizabeth A. Halpenny, Cory Kulczycki and Farhad Moghimehfar 6. Leveraging sport heritage to promote tourism destinations: the case of the Tour of Flanders Cyclo event Inge Derom and Gregory Ramshaw 7. Serious about leisure, serious about destinations: mountain bikers and destination attractiveness Julie Moularde and Adam Weaver 8. Sports tourism development and destination sustainability: the case of the coastal area of the Aveiro region, Portugal Maria João Carneiro, Zélia Breda and Catarina Cordeiro 9. Motivation of active sport tourists in a German highland destination – a cross-seasonal comparison Alexander Hodeck and Gregor Hovemann 10. Determining the influence of the social versus physical context on environmentally responsible behaviour among cycling spectators E. A. du Preez and E. T. Heath