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Since 1997 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida has become an important venue for sport tourism in the state of Florida with the opening of Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. Since 1997 Walt Disney World (WDW) in Orlando, Florida, has become an important venue for sport tourism in the state of Florida with the opening of its Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. The Wide World of Sports Complex contains world-class facilities for hosting a range of sport events from baseball and beach...
In many cases, the community sport organization is governed by a volunteer board of directors that sets policy for the organization. Still, most experts agree that volunteers are a critical component of community sport, and managing volunteers is essential to organizational functioning and survival. Although a professional human resource management (HRM) model can sometimes be a hindrance in completely volunteer-run sport organizations, it can be helpful in providing guidelines, structure, ...
Event sport tourism is not the only type of tourism to have an effect on a host community. The sustainability of most events may lie in the social dimensions, particularly enhanced community spirit, increased patriotism, and even an experienced event volunteer labor force that has the skills necessary to help with future events hosted by the community. Chernushenko argued that the Lillehammer Olympic Games provided a good example of event sport tourism and environmentalism that future events...
The emergence of new media has already had a profound effect on how many sport communication professionals practice their profession. They range from traditional Web sites and social networking Web sites (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, MySpace) to sport Web logs (i.e., blogs) and e-commerce systems. Only a few years ago, sport media relations professionals were completely reliant on the mass media to convey messages that originated with the sport organization through news releases.
Important segments of the international sport industry include arenas, event management, ticketing, sport law, security, sport marketing, accommodations, and travel. Important segments of the international sport industry include arenas, event management, stadia, sport products, ticketing, sport law, security, fitness centers, rehabilitation and sports medicine centers, sport marketing, accommodations, and travel. These segments are crucial to the conduct of international sport and are the ...
Physically oriented leisure can provide the self-knowledge to live a full life, but what circumstances and opportunities cue older people to become engaged in an active lifestyle? Very active older adults indicate that being physically active helps them manage aches and pains, improves their outlook on life, and even “helps keep me from getting old” (Kluge, 2002, p.17). These organizations sponsor sporting events with stated missions such as, “To improve the quality of life for adults aged ...
The development of age-restricted communities, the forerunner of active adult communities, can be traced back to the 1950s, when a developer named Del Webb created Youngtown, a new town near Phoenix, Arizona. The concept of an active adult community was an immediate hit, with nearly 100,000 people visiting the community on opening day and over 200 homes sold during the opening weekend (Sun City Visitors Center, 2010). In Southern California, the planned retirement community of Leisure World...
An essential component of adventure tourism is travel to unusual, exotic, and remote wilderness destinations (Kane & Tucker, 2004; Millington, Locke, & Locke, 2001). Studies have suggested that older travelers are finding adventure tourism more appealing and are becoming more adventurous than previous cohorts, wanting to travel to experience something they find personally satisfying. The adventure experience varies along a number of dimensions, including type of travel, group membership, and...
To develop effective older adult physical activity interventions, it is important to understand factors that predict participation and adherence. Because the majority of older adults clearly can engage in physical activity safely, a growing body of research has been conducted to identify effective programs for increasing physical activity in this population (Brawley, Rejeski, & King, 2003; Taylor et al. For typical home-based interventions, the physical activity occurs at the older adult’s ...
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