The interrelationship between sport activities and the perceived winter sport experience

Hallmann, Kirstin; Feiler, Svenja; Müller, Sabine; Breuer, Christoph

doi:10.1080/14775085.2012.729905

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“…Findings further confirm previous conclusions on how important safety and security issues are for tourism experiences [14,16,18,26]. Course, event and destination safety are indeed the key elements appraised by active sport event attendees, thus contributing to the overall value the event participants receive (i.e.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 86%

“…For this reason, environmental aspects such as beautiful scenery or countryside are widely recognised as factors that strongly influence the sport tourism experience and customer satisfaction [8,9,25,26]. Some environmental aspects like scenic course, scenic destination and expected weather conditions are often studied when preferences on sporting events and destinations are analysed [17,18].…”

Section: Natural Environment and Sport Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Active event sport tourism experience: the role of the natural environment, safety and security in event business models

Perić¹,

Ðurkin²,

Vitezić³

2018

Int. J. SDP

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The connection between tourism development and the natural environment is more intense in outdoor sport tourism than in many other forms of tourism. Natural settings (space), sport activities undertaken and the motivations of the people who participate in them interact to create sport tourism experiences. Tourist safety and security are also proved to be important elements of a tourist experience and it seems that sport tourists may be more sensitive to safety issues than non-sport tourists. This paper therefore aims to analyse the importance of the natural environment and safety and security issues, as constitute event business model elements, in providing sport tourism experiences. The natural setting is also examined as a motivation to participate in sport tourism travel. On the basis of 464 questionnaires gathered from active participants of 16 small-scale sport events in four different outdoor sports, exploratory factor analysis was conducted on motivational statements and revealed a conceptually clear sevenfactor structure. One of them, titled 'Nature', was the second most important motivational dimension for participants but differences between particular sports were considerable. In terms of business model elements included in the survey, participants gave high importance to all elements related to the natural environment and safety and security. Scenic destination, scenic and interesting course, course safety and event safety were the most important elements of event business models for participants in all four sports. Environmental management and proper implementation of security and crowd control measures were also singled out as important event processes. However, results of ANOVA indicate statistically significant differences between the sports in seven out of nine business model elements. These findings shed some light on the managerial aspects of sport tourism practice, helping managers to better serve sports and tourism needs at a particular event and in the destination.

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Section: Resultssupporting

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Section: Natural Environment and Sport Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Active event sport tourism experience: the role of the natural environment, safety and security in event business models

Perić¹,

Ðurkin²,

Vitezić³

2018

Int. J. SDP

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“…Similarly, in the context of the sport events literature, Shipway and Jones (2008) argued that few studies explore the qualitative experiences of active participants. In response to these calls in the literature between 2005 and 2010, the volume of scholarly work on sport tourism experiences has significantly increased over recent years (Coghlan, 2012;Rickly-Boyd, 2012a; Houge Mackenzie & Kerr, 2012;Hallmann, Feiler, Muller & Breuer, 2012;Miller, 2012;Kirkup, 2012). These more recent studies utilised different forms of qualitative research methods, and the recent introduction of more diverse theoretical perspectives also brought with it diversity in methodological approaches.…”

Section: Perspectives On Sport Tourism Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding cycle tourism experiences at the Tour Down Under

Shipway

King

Lee

et al. 2016

Journal of Sport & Tourism

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Sport tourism experiences are subjective and emotional, laden with symbolic meaning. This study explores the experiences of participants who adopted the multiple roles of both an active participant and event spectator, within the parameters of one chosen sporting event. A professional cycling race event, the Tour Down Under (TDU) in South Australia was chosen for this investigation, and twenty face-to-face individual interviews were conducted with cycle tourists. The three main themes emerging from the data were the interaction of people and temporary spaces on a sport tourism 'stage'; the co-creation of authentic personal experiences and meanings; and identity reinforcement and the development of a sense of belonging. Consequently, a model for understanding sport event tourism experiences is proposed. The findings suggest that providing tourists with authentic and memorable experiences lies at the heart of what constitutes sport tourism. Whilst the results demonstrate that cycling events provide the individual with a sense of belonging or membership to a wider social group, they also illustrate that there is a continued need for more focused and nuanced approaches towards understanding sport tourism experiences that reflect the ever-increasing diversity and complexity of the interaction between sport, events and tourism.

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“…For instance, in sport adventure tourism, safety issues and the planning needed to minimize risk support, the functional value of experience and value for money [51]. The safety theme is thought to be an important attribute for sport facilities and spectator sports [52,53] and the winter sport experience [54]. Also, event and course safety as well as destination safety were important items when preferred event and destination characteristics were analysed by active sport event tourists [55].…”

Section: New Bm Element: Safety and Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualising innovative business models for sustainable sport tourism

Perić¹,

Vitezić²,

Mekinc³

2016

Int. J. SDP

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In today's complex business environment, creating and delivering value to the customer, as the ultimate goal of business models, implies continuous research of elements and relationships within the business model. Despite the growing level of quality research in the field of business models, there seems to be a remarkable gap in the topic of tourism, especially in sport tourism. Being a unique combination of an experience-oriented activity (i.e. tourism) and a performance-oriented activity (i.e. sport), sport tourism presents many challenges to service providers. In fostering sustainable and profitable sport tourism, it is reasonable to ask how complex challenges affect business models and whether new model definitions and elements should be propounded. The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual business model for sport tourism that will consider some critical issues that challenge the industry. First, a range of contrasting perspectives regarding business model elements will be analysed. Second, three potentially significant issues for sport tourism operators-tourist experience, safety and security, and the importance of the environment-will be analysed, and their position within the context of the business model will be discussed. Finally, a new conceptual business model framework for sport tourism will be proposed. This framework would facilitate research into the managerial aspects of sport tourism supply to provide additional guidelines for practitioners, particularly for small, private-owned businesses.

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The interrelationship between sport activities and the perceived winter sport experience

Cited by 24 publications

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Active event sport tourism experience: the role of the natural environment, safety and security in event business models

Active event sport tourism experience: the role of the natural environment, safety and security in event business models

Understanding cycle tourism experiences at the Tour Down Under

Conceptualising innovative business models for sustainable sport tourism

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