Adventure Tourism And Sports

Author : Simon Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136393846

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Sport and Adventure Tourism by Simon Hudson Pdf

Discover the secrets to success in sport-related tourism and adventure travel! This essential handbook of sport-related travel provides an in-depth look at an international industry growing by leaps and bounds. Sport and Adventure Tourism serves as a unique reference resource for sports and tourism professionals, educators and students, presenting an invaluable overview of a niche market that’s rapidly outgrowing its niche. Covering every aspect of sport tourism from historical, economic, and sport-specific starting points, the book features thoughtful and incisive commentary from the foremost experts in the field. Presented in a concise, easy-to-read format, Sport and Adventure Tourism provides an unrivaled orientation to all facets of sport-related tourism and leisure management. Sports travel (both participatory and spectatorial) and adventure tourism are examined in terms of size and growth of the market, marketing and management strategies, and future prospects. The book includes international, up-to-date case studies, links to relevant Websites and an extensive roster of references. Sport and Adventure Tourism examines all aspects of sport-related tourism, including: planning, developing, and marketing an event skiing and snowboarding boating, sailing, and fishing the “phenomenon” of golf tourism mountain-based adventure tourism the growing spa industry virtual sports tourism-an alternative to travel This one-of-a-kind primer presents an informative study of sports, leisure, and adventure travel, covering everything from golf tourism to heli-skiing to sports event and spa tourism. A handbook for professionals, a textbook for academics, and a highly readable introduction for anyone interested in sport-related travel, Sport and Adventure Tourism is an essential guide for anyone who takes a not-so-leisurely approach to leisure time.

Author : Jagmohan Negi,Gaurava Manoher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports and tourism
ISBN : 8173913501

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Adventure Tourism and Sports by Jagmohan Negi,Gaurava Manoher Pdf

The Book Highlights The Wide Scope Of Adventure Tourism And Sports And Describes The Adventure Activities On Mountains, Deserts, Valleys, Rivers, Waters, Snow, Air, And Space In A Very Interesting, Effective, Enjoying, Recreational And Challenging Style. The Description Is Profusely Illustrated By A Number Of Coloured And B/W Photographs To Make It A Unique Text On This Subject Which Is Presented And Produced First Time In This Unique Style.

Author : Steve Taylor,Peter Varley,Tony Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136318979

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Adventure Tourism by Steve Taylor,Peter Varley,Tony Johnston Pdf

Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences. This timely, edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting edge empirically grounded research to challenge existing thinking and develop the conceptual framework underpinning definitions of adventure, interrogating the adventure tourism experience and further building upon recent advances in adventure education. The book brings together adventure literature from range of disciplines and applies it to focused study of Adventure Tourism. By doing so it significantly furthers understanding and moves forward this development of this area of Tourism. This significant volume is written by leading academics in the area, and will be valuable reading for all those interested in Adventure Tourism.

Author : Mike Weed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134090976

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Sport & Tourism: A Reader by Mike Weed Pdf

This Reader provides comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature in sports tourism. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by a substantial introduction from the editor, it presents the key themes, state of the art research and new conceptual thinking in sports tourism studies. Topics covered include: understanding the sports tourist impacts of sports tourism policy and management considerations for sports tourism approaches to research in sports tourism Articles cover a broad range of the new research that has a bearing on sports tourism and include diverse areas such as the economic analysis of sports events, sub-cultures in sports tourism, adventure tourism and tourism policy.

Author : Mike Weed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134090969

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Sport & Tourism: A Reader by Mike Weed Pdf

This Reader provides comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature in sports tourism. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by a substantial introduction from the editor, it presents the key themes, state of the art research and new conceptual thinking in sports tourism studies. Topics covered include: understanding the sports tourist impacts of sports tourism policy and management considerations for sports tourism approaches to research in sports tourism Articles cover a broad range of the new research that has a bearing on sports tourism and include diverse areas such as the economic analysis of sports events, sub-cultures in sports tourism, adventure tourism and tourism policy.

Author : Mike Weed,Chris Bull
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750683753

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Sports Tourism by Mike Weed,Chris Bull Pdf

"Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers is an unparalleled text that explains sports tourism as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon that stems from the unique interaction of activity, people and place. Unlike other texts, it establishes sports tourism as a unique area that produces its own unique issues, concerns and controversies. The text tackles these issues from three viewpoints: participants: examining the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sports tourists to create a participation model, 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"--Publisher.

Author : Shyam Lal Arora
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Adventure travel
ISBN : 8178842947

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Adventure Tourism and Sports by Shyam Lal Arora Pdf

With special reference to India.

Author : Gayle Jennings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750661812

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Water-based Tourism, Sport, Leisure, and Recreation Experiences by Gayle Jennings Pdf

Offers a unique insight into these growing areas of the tourism industry looking at their interaction, market profiles, advantages and their effects on the environment. Gayle Jennings, Griffith University, Australia.

Author : K. Ross Cloutier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000033576954

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The Business of Adventure by K. Ross Cloutier Pdf

Author : Ian Jenkins
Publisher : CABI
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786390868

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Adventure Tourism and Outdoor Activities Management by Ian Jenkins Pdf

An essential resource for those wishing to understand the key factors behind the operation of an adventure tourism company and how to be able to deliver a profitable as well as a sustainable product. It discusses important factors such as how the use of technologies and the current importance of environmental impacts and climate change are areas that are key to adventure tourism firms. To remain profitable companies need to address these issues along with the important elements of risk and safety. Created from the author's experience in delivering adventure tourism courses over the last 20 years, this long-awaited book is aimed at both university courses on adventure tourism and outdoor recreation as well as those working within the industry.

Author : Colin Beard,John Swarbrooke,Suzanne Leckie,Gill Pomfret
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136430626

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Adventure Tourism by Colin Beard,John Swarbrooke,Suzanne Leckie,Gill Pomfret Pdf

Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism, Adventure Tourism: the new frontier examines the product, the adventure tourist profile, and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability. International case studies are used to illustrate these issues, including: Gorilla watching holidays,Trekking on Mount Everest, Diving holidays, and Outward Bound packages. Analysis of the development and nature of adventure tourism accompanies these studies, ensuring that the title is useful both for undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises. There is also a companion website with additional cases, which can be found at www.bh/com/companions/0750651865.

Author : Patrick Laviolette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317137047

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Extreme Landscapes of Leisure by Patrick Laviolette Pdf

In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices. Dangerous games and adventure tours have shifted from being marginal, exotic or mad to being more than merely acceptable. They are now exemplary, mainstream even: there are a variety of new types, increasing numbers of people are doing them and they are being appropriated and have infiltrated more and more contexts. This book argues that hazardous sports and adventure tourism have become rather paradoxical. As a set of activities where players and holidaymakers are closer to death or danger than they would otherwise be, they are the complete opposite of normal games or vacations. Adventure sports and tours reverse the general definition of a holiday as being an escape from the seriousness of everyday life, as in most cases, they are innately serious, requiring as they do 'life or death' decision-making. Beginning with the rise in colonial explorations and moving on to consider the Dangerous Sports Club of Oxford, this book examines the increasing phenomena of adventure sports such as bungy jumping, cliff jumping or 'tomb-stoning', surfing and parkour within a framework of positive risk. It explores how certain assumptions about knowledge, agency, the body and nature are beginning to coalesce around newly developing spheres of social relations. Additionally, extreme games have become activities that are germane to the dawning of green social thought and so the book also addresses issues that deal with the intimate connections that exist between pleasure and the moral responsibility towards the environment.

Author : Mark Piekarz,Ian Jenkins,Peter Mills
Publisher : CABI
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780644493

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Risk and Safety Management in the Leisure, Events, Tourism and Sports Industries by Mark Piekarz,Ian Jenkins,Peter Mills Pdf

The management of risk and safety is not simply a matter of trying to remove risks, but is necessary and vital to these industries. Sensible risk management is concerned with making the most of the positive opportunities or reducing the negative risks. This books shows how the absence of explicit risk practices is not necessarily an absence of risk management, and how many existing operational and strategic practices can be understood as part of a process of risk and safety management. Its main objective is to develop greater clarity in the communication of risks and the development of safety programmes, illustrating how organisations can use a single language of risk, relevant for all levels of management and areas of operation.

Author : Omer Mei-Dan,Mike Carmont
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781447143635

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Adventure and Extreme Sports Injuries by Omer Mei-Dan,Mike Carmont Pdf

Adventure and extreme sports are increasing in popularity and it is not surprising that commercial adventure tourism and the accompanying life style and fashion, have become increasingly important to world economy. These unique sports involve not only major physical endurance and mental challenges but interaction and bonding with nature. They also tend to attract and excite audiences, both at the event and in the media. They are exciting to watch and redraw the boundaries of human achievement with the accompanying risks of injury and death. Adventure sports are usually performed in beautiful, exciting and remote locations or in extreme environments far away from medical assistance. Extreme sports usually involve an element of increased risk. These risks are highlighted by the media, usually after a reported accident or fatality but may vary according to the involvement of the participant; the weekend recreational adventure sports athlete or the experienced professional. A wide variety of sports fall into the category of adventure and extreme sports and with an increasing number of disciplines, this field is ever expanding. Sports are performed in contact with the “ground”; mountain running and biking, rock climbing, ice climbing and mountaineering. In the air: skydiving and base jumping. On water: surfing, white water kayaking and rafting, board sailing and diving. And also involve mechanical vehicles and animals! Some sports may be performed as a combination of few disciplines, such as water and air, e.g. kite surfing, and as so involve very unique mechanisms of injury. Sports events can also be merged to form a multi-sport race comprising many disciplines lastly from single to multi day races. Sports may involve competition with others, against the environment or with oneself, frequently the most ferocious adversary. Adventure sports are becoming increasingly popular in the general public and a few take these sports to an extreme level with the accompanying risks. Those that do, bring such time and dedication that they become professional in terms of training, preparation and finance. More and more people are enjoying adventure sports and unfortunately increased numbers are becoming injured as a result. Future research is progressing alongside the sport development, to allow the sport mechanisms, injury patterns and predisposing factors to be better understood. It is the hope of all researchers to make the sports safer without detracting from their adventurous nature. The aim and scope of our book would be to bring the sports medicine involved ineach of these sports into one volume. We would explain each sport including subtle similarities and differences, the common injury mechanisms, patterns of injury and treatment options. Additional chapters would include the mental characteristics of adventure racers and extreme sports athletes, together with the complexities of competing in hot and cold extreme environments. The book will present chapters focussing on the sports listed below, concentrating on published literature and newly formed studies by experts in the fields of injury epidemiology, prevention, management and rehabilitation.

Author : Ralf Buckley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136444418

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Adventure Tourism Management by Ralf Buckley Pdf

The academic study of adventure tourism is rapidly increasing in popularity, with research beginning to focus on it heavily. This book is a cohesive and comprehensive look at this multi-million dollar industry sector from a variety of perspectives relevant to the teaching of tourism. Ideal for the undergraduate student taking adventure tourism as a single subject degree, or as part of their tourism management studies, this book documents, analyses and offers insight into the latest research in the area. Includes analysis of products, trends, climate change, risk management and environmental management and many others. The Subsectors section within the book offers an overview of the twenty or more definable sectors within the adventure tourism industry considering their origins and history, latest trends and demographic groups. The author then goes on to look in more detail at: Wildlife Tourism, Marine Tourism, Helitourism, and Boardsports. Each chapter will include seven pedagogical elements: * introduction - what the chapter does and doesn't cover * plain-language review of the chapter topic with minimal referencing - essentially like lecture notes * concluding paragraph to the review section explaining how it leads to the next chapter(s) * review of recent research, condensed into tables where possible * revision notes - a few pages of bullet points summarising the review and research * a sample set of assignment questions, three to six per chapter in some cases * readings on relevant topics, condensed from previous publications.