Sporting Venues as Tourist Attractions

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-45289-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 280 mm

This book provides a comprehensive international assessment of the relationship between tourism and sporting venues. Sporting venues are important instigators of tourism, with many professional sport sites attracting millions of visitors annually while also becoming icons of communities, clubs, sports, and nations. However, the concept of what constitutes a sporting venue, how sporting venues are managed and interpreted, and why tourists visit sporting venues are important questions for researchers and practitioners alike.

A variety of sporting venues from around the world are explored, from large professional stadia and Olympic sites to smaller community sporting venues, along with an understanding of what drives tourists to visit sporting venues, the marketing of sporting venues to visitors as sites of authenticity, cultural heritage, and hospitality, the challenges and opportunities for clubs and communities to develop tourism at sport sites, and the factors that go into presenting sporting venues to tourists, including the interpretation of the venue itself along with the personnel who create the experiences for visitors.

This book is essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism management, sport management, event management, leisure studies, and hospitality. It will also appeal to venue managers, destination marketing organizations, sport administrators, urban planners, and policymakers involved in sport tourism development. The volume spans multiple subject areas including sport tourism, venue management, cultural heritage tourism, destination marketing, visitor experience management, and the socio-economic impacts of sporting infrastructure.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Sport & Tourism.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramshaw, Gregory

Tobar, Felipe Bertazzo

Gammon, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Sporting venues as tourist attractions 1. ‘Watch your step, please’: uncovering gender dynamics in football stadium tours 2. Sport tourism in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain): examining stakeholder influence on FC Barcelona’s tourism operations 3. Moving the goalposts: the intersection of sport, tourism and hospitality 4. Strategic groups of MLB ballparks: tourism perspectives 5. K114: the other Calgary tower and forgotten memories of Canada’s First Olympic Winter Park Site 6. Stadium authenticity, attachment, and loyalty among spectator sport tourists at the Japan National Stadium 7. Casa Rei Pelé: the past reconstructed as a sports tourism attraction 8. Fictional sport heritage: the case of the Hoosier Gym and Milan ‘54 Hoosiers Museum

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory Ramshaw is a Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University. His research focuses on the social construction and cultural production of heritage and nostalgia, particularly in tourism and sport settings.

Felipe Bertazzo Tobar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University. With an interdisciplinary background, his research interests lie at the intersection of sport, tourism, heritage, events, and politics.

Sean Gammon is a Reader in Leisure and Tourism Management at the University of Lancashire. He has published extensively on sport, tourism, leisure, heritage, and nostalgia. His influential research has advanced understanding of sport-related travel, identity, and cultural experience, shaping scholarship across leisure, sport and tourism studies.