| By: |
Carvalho, Pedro G.;
Lourenço, Rui |
| Abstract: |
Sport Tourism represents the knowledge and the group of practices where Sport
and Tourism became interdependent. This overlapping area turns clearly at two
levels that might be named by Sport Tourism Spectacle and Sport Tourism
Practice. According to Pigeassou [9] the foundations of sport tourism do not
consist purely of classifying sport tourism activities using categories
employed in sport activities. In this article we provide a theoretical
framework for the understanding of the market segment in Sport Tourism
Practice, looking at their client behaviour typology (enthusiastic and
casual), their motivations and high lightening the role this framework plays
on the tourist destiny development. Furthermore we present some empirical
results of a seminal experimental design. |
| Keywords: |
Tourism; Sport; Sport Tourism; Sport Tourism Practice; Sport Tourism Spectacle. |
| JEL: |
O18 L83 |
| Date: |
2008–08 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:10959&r=tur |