A complete insight into the ever-growing snow sports industry, looking at changing demographics, climate change and how these issues can be managed.
The book has a sound pedagogic structure, with key chapter features including: * Spotlight' sections focusing on the occupation of a frontline individual in the snow sports industry in various roles including marketing, resort designer, ...
Chapter 4 Winter Sport Tourism in North America SIMON HUDSON Introduction Winter sports that can be enjoyed in North America embrace all manner of activities , ranging from ice - skating to ice climbing , but it is skiing that is the ...
Winter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming.
Destination marketing and management: explores theoretical and applied aspects of sport tourism destination marketing and management Sport tourism impacts and environments: identifies and discusses critical issues of sustainable development ...
Winter sport tourists who have chosen the Ore Mountains as a destination are more interested in cross-country skiing than tourists who have chosen the Black Forest. Additional services and basic characteristics of the destinations are ...
Empirical studies vary widely. Studies on passive sport tourists (i.e. sport event tourists) differ from studies on active sport tourists. Active tourists are often divided into summer sport tourists and winter sport tourists.
Using Pearson's (1979) classification, surfing can be described as a play sport or an athletic sport (that is, either amateur or ... As a subculture and way of life, surfing has its own mores and codes of conduct (Pearson, 1979).
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This book will be of great interest to everyone interested by sport tourism and local sustainable development studied with a multidisciplinary approach.