The Effect of Sport Tourists' Travel Style, Destination and Event Choices, and Motivation on Their Involvement in Small-Scale Sports Events

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Resident’s Perspective on Developing Community-Based Tourism – A Qualitative Study of Muen Ngoen Kong Community, Chiang Mai, Thailand

“…Finally, one sensitive controversial issue in academic literature concerns the number of tourists who visit the area. The number of tourists can vary based on travel style which depends on motivation, development of destination, event selection criteria, and involvement (Priporas et al, 2018). Nyaupane et al (2006) added that fewer tourists is better because it allows a greater degree of interplay with valuable community resources, such as living culture and heritage, and prevents interference in private areas of the local culture from tourists.…”

“…Häusler (2005) suggested communities must conduct a market analysis in order to explore their strengths and weaknesses and then determine business opportunities. Additionally, products should be developed through a partnership in which they can assist in providing necessary skills and market access (Dodds et al, 2018), and marketing strategy can be more successful if a communication plan is built based on tourist motivation and involvement (Priporas et al, 2018). Kontogeorgopoulos et al (2014) advised the third government agency to assist with the One Tambon One Product (OTOP) program.…”

Sports events and the COVID-19 pandemic: assessing runners' intentions for future participation in running events – evidence from Greece

“…A sport event is considered to be an important component of the marketing mix of a tourist destination. It is used as a marketing tool by destination marketers to promote the destination and to differentiate the destination from other destinations in the tourism market (Fotiadis et al, 2018;Koo, 2013;Priporas et al, 2018). Furthermore, hosting a sport event plays a vital role in promoting the tourist destination, increasing the exposure of the host destination to the world, stimulating the host destination's economy and creating a number of media attentions (Bennekom, 2014;Gibson et al, 2012;Higham, 1999).…”

“…In this paper, we focus on running event participants, who are mainly amateur runners who travel outside their home place in order to participate in a running race eventmost of them small scale eventsbecoming simultaneously visitorstourists for the host destination. They usually combine their running race participation with a travel experience whether the race destination is within a day trip distance long or a multiday trip away from home (Fotiadis et al, 2018;Priporas et al, 2018).…”

Relationship Analysis of Destination Image, Sports Involvement, Event Quality and Travel Motives as an Antecedent Factors on Revisit Intention in Recurring Running Sports-Event

“…Realizing this, many countries are willing to invest heavily to be selected and maximize the opportunity to host a respected sport event. As a result, the management of sporting events has grown exponentially in recent years (Priporas et al, 2018).…”