Tourism is a multi-faced activity that links the economic, social and environmental components of sustainability. Firstly, this research analyses residents’ perceptions of the impact of tourism development and examines the factors that influence the support for sustainable tourism development....

This paper develops a new simulation-based measure of playoff uncertainty and investigates its contribution to modeling match attendance compared to other variants of playoff uncertainty in the existing literature. A model of match attendance that incorporates match uncertainty, playoff...

In today's recreation and tourism, sustainable tourism must play an important role by making one or several types of tourism sustainable, with a lowest possible impact on environment and ecology. In order to develop sustainability of tourism which forms one of the very impressive spheres of...

Sustainable tourism is a controversial issue in tourism literature. There are numerous definitions and many researches and analyses about sustainable tourism, but still there is no consensus and fully understanding of this term and its practical implementation. Sustainable tourism is...

This article examines whether the player draft used since 1986 in the Australian Football League has caused clubs to tank; that is, to seek to lose matches to obtain improved draft choices. A comparison of clubs’ performances in regular season matches played before and after introduction of...

The past two decades represent an unprecedented era of reform, a time of significant competition restructuring and corporate reorganisation in Australian football, association football, rugby league and rugby union. As rugby league transformed from the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) to the...

Intermediaries often arise in order to facilitate trade in markets characterized by asymmetric information. In the travel industry, policymakers have tried to address information asymmetries by providing hotel ratings. We show that those ratings are noisy indicators of quality because of the use...

This study examines matching effects as a determinant of mobility in the market for Australian Rules football coaches between 1931 and 1994. Among other results, the authors find direct evidence, consistent with match theory, of a coach- team match-specific effect on team performance; that is, a...

The Australian Sports Commission requires good governance in allocating funds and has developed Principles of Good Governance for the guidance of sporting organisations. Despite the endorsement of most of the content of the Principles by the Independent Sport Panel in its 2009 Review, there are...