Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Cooper, J. A.; Alderman, Derek H.

doi:10.1080/14616688.2020.1759135

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“…To develop the Tibetan horse racing festival as a tourism resource, it is inseparable from the support of professional tourism talents [45][46]. Therefore, sports and tourism related departments need to make full use of national policies.…”

Section: ) the Practice Of Integrated Development Of Tourism And Yushu Horse Racing Festival In Qinghai Provincementioning

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Research on the Current Situation and Practice of the Integration of National Traditional Horse Racing Festival and Tourism

Zhu¹

2020

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National traditional sports events carry the task of developing the history and culture of ethnic minorities and are the soul of the development of tourism. National traditional sports events, cultural industries, and tourism industries interact and intersect each other, and the three are integrated and developed. The national traditional sports tourism industry is an important development direction for developing local culture, improving the tourism industry, promoting economic restructuring, and leveraging the local economy. The integration of national traditional sports and tourism is a new growth point for the national economy, which is not only conducive to the improvement of the local economic level, but also improves the development of the industrial structure, thereby promoting the sound development of the national traditional sports industry. In view of this, this research focuses on an in-depth and systematic study of the current situation and practice of the integration of national traditional horse racing festival and tourism, mainly discussing the following six aspects: The first is the analysis of the necessity of the integration of national traditional sports and tourism. The second is the analysis of the mechanism power, policy support and economic basis for the integration and development of national traditional horse racing and tourism. The third is the analysis of the development of Tibetan horse racing festival. The fourth is the analysis on the value and predicaments of the integrated development of Tibetan horse racing festival and tourism. The fifth is a case study of the practice of integrated development of Tibetan horse racing festival and tourism

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Section: ) the Practice Of Integrated Development Of Tourism And Yushu Horse Racing Festival In Qinghai Provincementioning

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Research on the Current Situation and Practice of the Integration of National Traditional Horse Racing Festival and Tourism

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2020

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“…In addition, the characteristics, needs, behaviors, and markets of sports tourists are the exploration hotspots, along with the sports tourism destination planning, product development, and safety management. Cooper and Alderman discussed the influence of canceling sports events on the economy, society, culture, and the environment; in response to the COVID-19, relevant sports tourism alternatives are necessary to promote sustainability [2]. Nishio et al developed a motivational scale for sports fans (social, achievement, relaxation, and games) and a general tourist motivation scale (escape, nature, shopping, and food) for sports tourism [3].…”

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Spatial Distribution Pattern and Influencing Factors of Sports Tourism Resources in China

Zuo

Chen

Pan

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IJGI

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Sports tourism is an emerging tourism product. In the sports and tourism industry, resource mining is the foundation that provides positive significance for theoretical support. This study takes China’s sports tourism boutique projects as the study object, exploring its spatial distribution pattern through the average nearest neighbor index, kernel density, and spatial autocorrelation. On the strength of the wuli–shili–renli system approach, the entropy value method and geographic detector probe model are used to identify the driving factors affecting the spatial distribution pattern. Findings reveal the following: (1) From 2013 to 2014, the sports tourism resources in China present a distribution pattern with the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration as the high-density core area and the Guizhou–Guangxi border area and the western Hubei ecological circle as the sub-density core areas. (2) From 2014 to 2018, China’s sports tourism boutique projects increased by 381, and the regional differences among various provinces tended to converge. The high-density core area remained unchanged. The sub-density cores are now the Yunqian border area of the Karst Plateau, the Qinglong border area of the Qilian Mountains, and the Jinji border area of the Taihang Mountains, shaping the distribution trends of “depending on the city, near the scenery” and “large concentration, small dispersion”. (3) The proportion of provincial sports tourism development classified as being in the coordinated stage is 61.29%. (4) The explanatory power of the factors affecting the spatial layout in descending order is natural resource endowment, sports resource endowment, transportation capacity, industrial support and guidance, market cultivation and development, people’s living standards, software and hardware services, and economic benefit effects. The explanatory power of the interaction of two different factors is higher than that of the single factor.

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“…It seems the sport and events industries in general, relative to other industries, were less prepared to face the COVID-19 crisis (PwC's Sports Survey, 2020). Given a widespread contagion, COVID-19 has resulted in the cancellation or postponement of sporting events around the world, from local and regional sports events to national and international competitions (Australian Institute of Sport, 2020;Cooper & Alderman, 2020).…”

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Getting back to the event: COVID-19, attendance and perceived importance of protective measures

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Wise
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Heydari
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Kinesiology (Zagreb, Online)

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Current COVID-19 realities impose additional challenges to sporting event organisers who now have to consider and include new protective measures for the safety and security of both active and passive participants. This study focuses on event consumers and issues related to their intention to attend future sporting events and their perception of how important they find some of the safety-related protective measures when attending sporting events following the COVID-19 crisis. Based on the empirical study of residents from one Middle East and two European countries, the results suggest that, once all restrictions on movement and sporting event attendance is allowed to resume, most of the respondents will attend events in their home country within few weeks. In addition, the respondents from a country that experienced more severe consequences of the pandemic perceive all protective measures as more important than respondents from countries that were less affected.

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Cancelling March Madness exposes opportunities for a more sustainable sports tourism economy

Cited by 66 publications

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Research on the Current Situation and Practice of the Integration of National Traditional Horse Racing Festival and Tourism

Research on the Current Situation and Practice of the Integration of National Traditional Horse Racing Festival and Tourism

Spatial Distribution Pattern and Influencing Factors of Sports Tourism Resources in China

Getting back to the event: COVID-19, attendance and perceived importance of protective measures

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