1st Edition

Olympic Tourism

By Mike Weed Copyright 2008
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Olympic Tourism is the first text to focus on the nature of Olympic tourism and the potential for the Olympic Games to generate tourism in the run up to and long after the hosting of a Games. The awarding of the 2012 Olympics to London will see an increasing interest in the phenomena of organising, managing and analysing the issues which surround mega-event sport tourism. This text will address... Read more
Foreword; PART ONE; Chapter One – Sport, Tourism & the Olympic Games; Chapter Two – Who are Olympic Tourists?; Chapter Three – The Detail of Olympic Tourism; Chapter Four – Leveraging Olympic Tourism; Chapter Five – Planning for Olympic Tourism; PART TWO; Chapter Six – The Winter Olympic Games; Chapter Seven – The Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney (2000); Chapter Eight – The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens (2004); Chapter Nine – The Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing (2008); Chapter Ten – The Games of the XXX Olympiad in London (2012); Afterword; References

Biography

Professor Mike Weed is Director of the Centre for Sport, Physical Education andActivity Research (SPEAR) and Faculty Research Director for the Faculty of Social andApplied Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is Editor of the Journal of Sport and Tourism and author of Olympic Tourism (Elsevier)