Description
The book "Heritage Sport and Tourism" explores the growing trend of sport heritage as a tourist attraction. It covers a wide range of topics, including visiting historic stadiums, sports halls of fame, and participating in sport fantasy camps. The book includes contributions from researchers in various countries and highlights the importance of the sporting past in shaping tourism. It also discusses the intersection of heritage, sport, and tourism and its impact on fields such as sport tourism, heritage tourism, sport management, and sports geography. The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and industry practitioners interested in sport heritage as a tourist attraction. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sport Tourism.
Sport heritage is increasingly being recognised as a potent instigator of tourism; be it touring a historic stadium, visiting a sports hall of fame, or participating in a sport fantasy camp, tourists now have a vast array of locations and options to experience the sporting past. This book provides the first comprehensive resource on sport heritage as a tourist attraction. Using theoretical and applied studies from researchers in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, this book finds that the sporting past is a key component in tourism's future. The convergence of heritage, sport and tourism involves many different and diverse fields, including sport tourism, heritage tourism, sport management, and sports geography. This book will serve the needs of students, researchers, industry practitioners in these fields, as well as those interested in sport heritage as a tourist attraction. This book was first published, in part, as a special issue of the Journal of Sport Tourism.
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