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in a lot of business" -- Sport mega-events and nation branding -- Enhancing destination competitiveness through … disability sport event legacies -- Identifying antecedents and outcomes of festival satisfaction -- How to create a profitable …
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strong foundation in sport, the institutional arrangements and formulae for developing sports tourism are either lacking or … in the growth of sports tourism in the Caribbean. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews some of the key … definitions offered in the literature for sports, tourism, sports tourism and sports education. It then discusses the status of …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advance the sport of golf as a compelling enhancement of the Caribbean region … tourism product and assess prospects for the development of golf tourism in Guyana, catalysed by World Cup Cricket, 2007 …'s international steep growth curve and global tourism implications. Additional theoretical issues include environmental consequences …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is three‐fold: first, to propose a model for measuring service quality in a skiing resort; second, to investigate the contribution of place attachment on the prediction of customers' loyalty, and third, to examine the influence of service quality on the...
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This paper utilizes Whyte’s groupthink recast framework to analyze the Major League Umpires Association resignation decision. Our analysis supports the importance of high collective efficacy to groupthink and thus defective decision making. Implications for both research and practice are...
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tourism and events, the potential social legacy for communities and destinations from disability sport or parasport events … remains absent from most sport, event and tourism literature. The findings and resultant typology from this study provide an … literature and destination competitiveness by focusing on disability sport events or parasport and addressing an identified gap …
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Focuses on the estimation of the contribution of the hotel industry to Hong Kong’s gross domestic product (GDP) and an analysis of the factors influencing the hotel industry’s recent and likely future contribution to the GDP. The investigation also covers a method of speeding up the...
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Co‐operation is crucial to the successful marketing of tourism destinations, and electronic commerce offers exciting … new opportunities for co‐operation among tourism suppliers. This article examines the reciprocal linking of Websites to … create “virtual” tourism destination organisations, whereby consumers can access information and purchase multiple components …
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Leisure‐based tourism constitutes an important part in China’s domestic tourist market. This article reports the …, modification of urban tourist attraction systems, effective exploitation of urban tourism resources and destination management and …
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of tourism and hospitality. Pinpoints the 34 current areas of interest and those identified as of strategic importance …
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