Impact Of Sports On Sports Tourism

This report also covers the nature and characteristics of a given segment of the leisure or events industry, what economic impact towards society using PESTLE to specify these aspects and also what skills required of managers in the segment mention on this topic.

Globalization has become a serious problem today for all sport-related industries in the United States. As the same as other firms, sport corporates are also facing the fact that the North American markets are becoming saturated, thus they have to shifting their focus to the global markets as well as other companies. However, to open the global markets is not as simple as produce and deliver the goods, the sport industries’ managers should also concern about the cultural differences and the demand of local market. Actually, the cultural difference is the key for a sport industry to globalize.

Following the Civil War in the United States, African-Americans still faced extreme forms of racism and troubles all the way up until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. African-Americans were excluded from nearly all forms of participating in society including the ability to participate in professional sports and be paid at the same level as white athletes. The segregation of sports in this country was never declared by law, however it is something that our culture refused to accept (Reese). The eventual integration of sports in the United States, beginning with baseball and boxing, played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement and had a lasting impact on

Many people argue on whether or not travel sports are necessary. Some people say they are a good thing because they give kids team working abilities, but others say they are bad because the people who do not make the team are left with no physical activity. Travel sports are not necessary and sports should be more of a participation thing not all about winning because, they are bad for the kids who fail to make the team. Also they are a financial burden and a big time commitment.

Sport is an ever growing aspect of our cultures, and as the access to different avenues of sport begin to present themselves we question the ability of sport organizations to expand globally. This review of literature will examine different avenues of sport and the research that has been done in regards to their effort to expand on a global scale.

Sport tourism is one of “the fastest growing sectors of the global travel and tourism industry” (Heo, King). With this information, it is important to look at how sport tourism plays into the life of all ages of people. Active sport tourism is defined as “people who travel in order to participate in sporting events” (Heo, King). Active tourism can include watching, volunteering, or actually playing a sport. The experiment discussed in “Senior Games as Serious Sport Tourism” explains the purpose of the senior games, the revenue brought in from the games, who participates, and the benefits received for those who participate in sport tourism. The senior games are able to be classified as sport tourism because thousands of participants, volunteers,

According to International Olympic Committee documents (International Olympic Committee, 2007) and some previous Olympic bid documents (Cashman, 1984; Stevens, 1999; Woodhouse & March, 2010), it is difficult to definite the Olympic legacy due to the multidisciplinary and dynamic. But in general, the Olympic legacy is something left and have a long term influence to the Olympic host city or the state or country after holding the event. Legacies could be tangible and intangible, positive and negative, direct and indirect, intended and unintended, or measurable and not. Moreover, the content of Olympic legacy normally divides into five categories: sporting, social, environmental, urban and economic. However, most of the research and report are emphasis on the positive and tangible legacies, the negative legacies content could be more than above.

For London and UK, hosting this mega-sport event provide them a great opportunity to boom the tourism industry to stimulate local economy when facing the global economic recession, especially in Europe. Although London didn’t outline specific tourism objective for the Games in its bidding documentation, London clearly stated its tourism objectives

Leisure sciences is a field that takes its writing requirements from other fields such as kinesiology, physical education or the social sciences. Depending on your topic, you may write a scientific paper or a qualitative paper; this paper will focus on qualitative methods. For the purpose of this article the focus will be on social science research with physical educational research. When writing in leisure sciences, it is important to take notes from both disciplines, for example Oliver (1998) wrote that physical educational research uses narratives to describe how professionals work. This is important in leisure sciences as the field is a professional field and can be related as both fields focus on research that involves knowledge

As mentioned by Rimmington & Morrison (2009), the assistance from different parts of the world presents a new and diverse outlook for future research including theoretical innovations and revelations, cultural and environmental aspects, tourist destination and other ecotourism and recreational aspects of tourism and hospitality industry (Brotherton,

The outcome of this study will provide readers with a deeper insight into Orlando and Florida, where everything is impacted by the tourism factors they thrive on. It will also offer an outside perspective on how all these aspects work together to allow leisure parks to become what they are today. This well known destination will be analyzed so one can see further than just beaches and theme parks by digging deeper into significant topics that affect Orlando, Florida in negative and positive ways. The research conducted on these impacts and topic will additionally be a contribution to the body of knowledge. By researching this matter and answering certain questions through data research, one could solve present issues in their environment from the findings of this study. The results of this thesis, which will be further discussed in part two of the thesis, will contribute towards the bigger picture of how Orlando could improve or take certain opportunities based on whether the result is a negative or positive impact. This in turn provides readers with further knowledge about a destination that has flourished into one of the most visited destinations in the United

Sports have always been one of the major factors of the society and economy. Back in Ancient Greece, the homeland of the Olympic games, the Greeks believed that a healthy body was very important and sports played an important part of the society. Nowadays, the sport industry has grown to a direct and indirect economic impact of the countries, with organizations and sport events that have fans and supporters from all over the planet that are willing to spend a great amount of money in order to show their support for their favorite team, player or club. That happens because sports entertain people by watching their favorite sport teams play in some of the sports mega-events.

During the past month and a half since my arrival in the UK, I have noticed that that the Hospitality sector especially restaurants and hotels have a thriving business and was interested how a mega event like the Olympics will have an effect on the Hospitality Industry.

In the more developed world, every industry in the rapid development. This is a high-speed development in the 21st century, especially tourism and hospitality. It is a big trend in tourism industry, lots of people because Olympic Games, stars, attractions and movies are fascinated. Because of this kind of industry, it will be a high salary in tourism and hospitality. Also, it will increase income tax, marking, local communities, great attractions, historical staff and natural environment. This paper will talk about Olympic Games impact tourism and hospitality why they rise taxes and marketing, and why impact local communities in order to increase their international tourism and hospitality in the local society.

The true impact of the Commonwealth Games on tourism, scheduled for October 2010, can be judged better if one is to look at the