Epistemological Issues on Sport Tourism: Challenge for a New Scientific Field

Pigeassou, Charles; Bui-Xuan, G.; Gleyse, Jacques

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“…The individual growth of Sport and Tourism, as well as the respective parallels, gave rise, in the late twentieth century, to Sports Tourism area (Gibson, 1998;Standeven & De Knop, 1999;Weed, 2009). Although the linkage between sport and tourism can be glimpsed since the ancient Rome and Greece, at a time when sport had already driven large flows of people traveling to take part in major sporting events, according to Pigeassou, Bui-Xuan and Gleyse (2003), the term "sports tourism" came up in the 70s, for the first time, in France. And in what concerns to sports tourism research, as referred by Weed (2009), it seems that the first publication focusing this binomial goes back to 1966, an initial exploration of the performance that sport could have on vacation tourism.…”

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Sports Recreation in Tourist Context: Alentejo Coasts Resorts Case Study

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Silva

Pereira

2017

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The new sporting era in which we are living has new forms, new contexts and values, and a growing demand for evasion, wellbeing and health, and new experiences. In this leisure environment, favorable to sports practice, there has been an increase in the number of resorts in Portugal offering a range of sport services to its customers in accordance with their wishes. In this context, the main goal of this research is centered on the general characterization of the sports animation services offered by resorts in the Alentejo Coast. A qualitative research approach was used, in which content analysis was the chosen data analysis method; a semi-structured interview was the tool for data collection. The results show that the services of sporting activities in resorts located in this region are still underdeveloped. The majority of such resorts has a small amount of services, equipment and human resources. The search for these services is meager, despite their gratuitousness nature. In spite of the reduced offer of the sports animation services, the resorts’ managers state that in a recent future there won’t be new investments in the area, since the offer now satisfies the actual level of demand.

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Sports Recreation in Tourist Context: Alentejo Coasts Resorts Case Study

Mascarenhas

Silva

Pereira

2017

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“…O conceito de turismo ativo remete-nos para a convergência crescente entre turismo e desporto (Weed, 2009;Weed, 2005). A expressão turismo desportivo, que subentende uma forte ênfase na prática de uma atividade desportiva (Weed, 2009;Weed e Bull, 2004;Chalip 2001), ultrapassou as fronteiras dos eventos desportivos e das deslocações para efeitos de participação e assistência a eventos desportivos, e/ou visita a locais com valor histórico na história do desporto [Pigeassou et al (2003) e Gibson et al (2003)], para assumir uma dimensão pessoal, associada a deslocações para participação numa atividade física ou desportiva, sem que exista necessariamente um elemento de competição (Gibson, 1998). A emergência do fator desportivo, expressa através da crescente interação entre a atividade física e desportiva e a dimensão recreativa e turística resulta das transformações qualitativas e quantitativas na disponibilidade de tempo livre e alterações dos valores que regem a sociedade, concretizadas na adoção de estilos de vida mais saudáveis e na preocupação com a higiene, com a saúde e com a valorização da imagem pessoal, no contexto de uma hipervalorização do "atributo" juventude (Hich e Higham, 2004).…”

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As Levadas da Madeira no Contexto da Afirmação e da Confluência do Turismo de Natureza com o Turismo Ativo

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Alves

2013

Rev. Port. de Estud. Reg.

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Este artigo centra-se na análise do potencial turístico das levadas no contexto do desenvolvimento de nichos de mercado complementares da atividade turística característica da Região Autónoma da Madeira (RAM). Embora a RAM continue a oferecer índices de satisfação elevados, dados estatísticos recentes evidenciam as crescentes dificuldades de sustentação de taxas de crescimento da procura. Os resultados apresentados resultam da análise de um questionário distribuído a uma amostra de 150 turistas que frequentaram uma levada. Embora se constate uma apreciação geral positiva do destino, os dados sugerem um conjunto de pontos fracos, nomeadamente no que concerne ao predomínio do turista-padrão que adota uma atitude mais passiva do destino. A região deve reforçar os pontos fortes das levadas através da valorização dos aspetos culturais e naturais do produto levadas, na expectativa de uma correspondência do lado da procura com as inovações introduzidas. As conclusões deste estudo apontam sobretudo para a necessidade de ser a oferta a introduzir e testar novos produtos e funcionalidades que possam atrair a atenção dos turistas, dada a preferência corrente pelo produto standard.

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“…Its main strength is to fuse the two separate entities, sport and tourism ('resisting polarization' between the two main approaches, as Gammon and Robinson state (1997: 10)) and then to highlight the fact that there are two sides to the coin -'sports tourism' and 'tourism sport'. A primary rationale for making this binary differentiation is the same as the argument of domination/subordination utilized by Pigeassou et al (2003): 'If the prime motivation (for travel) is based in sport, then the touristic element would act as a secondary reinforcement, and vice versa if tourism was the main point of interest' (Gammon and Robinson, 1997: 10). Thus, an American travelling to Auckland specifically to see the America Cup Yacht Race might also expect to see the sights the city has to offer; another passenger on the same plane travelling to Auckland specifically to see the sights of New Zealand might intend to see one of the seven finals races as part of his/her itinerary.…”

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“…Standeven and De Knop (1999) (5) Cruises (Kurtzman et al 1994 Kurtzman et al (1994), however, does not confront the issue of what is and is not sports tourism. Pigeassou et al (2003) pursue that binary division in examining the epistemological issues of sport tourism. They argue that 'subordination' is the key to deciphering the relationship between sport and tourism.…”

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Sports Tourism: From Binary Division to Quadripartite Construct

Sofield

2003

Journal of Sport & Tourism

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The convergence of sport with tourism is a phenomenon of such recent origin that there is, as yet, no universally accepted definition of 'sports tourism'. Until recently the descriptors invariably followed a conceptual dualism with sport on the one side and tourism on the other, each field of study separated out from the other. Sport was further demarcated in a binary fashion between players and spectators. Recent work, however, has reconstituted the conventional binary opposites into 'an other' that is more than the sum of two parts, and this is 'sports tourism'. The construct which best captures this trialectic (sport/tourism/sports tourism) is, in fact, a quadripartite exploration of the original binary division, an expansion of sport and tourism into hard and soft sports tourism, and hard and soft tourism sport. However, this construct omits several fundamental relationships between sport and tourism. These omissions include the centrality of events in formalized sports tourism, the role of sports tourism in creating a sense of place through co-branding and providing the impetus for wider development (as with the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games), the burgeoning partnership between sports organizations and tourism authorities, and the 'sub-culture of the tournament' that invariably accompanies sport tourism but which is not present in tourism sport. These issues are illustrated with examples drawn from Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific and, to a lesser extent, Asia. An expanded construct of Gammon and Robinson's framework of sports tourism/tourism sport is then offered which incorporates these additional elements.

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Epistemological Issues on Sport Tourism: Challenge for a New Scientific Field

Cited by 19 publications

References 6 publications

Sports Recreation in Tourist Context: Alentejo Coasts Resorts Case Study

Sports Recreation in Tourist Context: Alentejo Coasts Resorts Case Study

As Levadas da Madeira no Contexto da Afirmação e da Confluência do Turismo de Natureza com o Turismo Ativo

Sports Tourism: From Binary Division to Quadripartite Construct

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