Sport tourism: introduction and overview Jürgen Schwark

Abstract

To begin with, the article deals briefly with the historical development of sport tourism and describes the current state of discussion concerning this field. Subsequently, a theoretical concept with regard to sport tourism is developed. In addition to this first, rather theoretical part of the article, the issues and structures of sport tourism that have been developed and dealt with so far are described. To conclude, empirical data regarding participation in sport tourism as well as regarding perspectives of this field are presented.

Keywords:

• sport tourism
• concept
• structures
• participation
• perspectives

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Eivind Åsrum Gelsenkirchen

Jürgen Schwark is a Professor for Tourism Management at the FH Gelsenkirchen – University of Applied Sciences. He is a doctor habilitated of sport sciences, especially sociology of sport. His main fields of research are sport tourism as well as sport events (contact: [email protected]).