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Question: Passive Sport Tourism: Building an Autonomous Profile
Answer: There have been a significant number of attempts to define sport tourism as well as to categorize its different expressions produced since the two massive leisure phenomena have collided in the early ‘80s.‘Passive’ sport tourism has early been identified as one of the main pylons of the phenomenon examining travelling produced due to events’ attending but literature has failed to produce concrete assumption on its size, nature and operation. Further confusion is produced when linking events organization with sport tourism, generating thus, the need to produce clear guiding theoretical guidance to facilitate organizers and policy makers to design effective developmental plans. The paper focuses on passive sport tourism revisiting the initial conceptual paths and building on the specific features that separate this specific tourism form. Concluding suggestions aim to produce distinct types of sport tourism operation, tourist behavior and map the dimensions for developing effective passive sport tourism developments.
(Source: , 08 Oct 2021)
Source Link: https://iacudit.org/journal/volumes/v5/v5_41-48.pdf.