"Physical activity, inactivity and their relationship to health are serious concerns for governments around the world. This is the first book to critically examine the policy and practice of physical activity from a multi-disciplinary, social-scientific perspective. Moving beyond the usual biophysical and epidemiological approaches, it defines and explores the key themes that are shaping the global physical activity debate. Unrivalled in ..."
Olympic Tourism(1st Edition) by MikeWeed Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8161-2, ISBN: 0-7506-8161-6
"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 these issues and using detailed case analy ..."
Sports Tourism(1st Edition) Participants, Policy and Providers by Chris J. Bull, MikeWeed Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2003 by Butterworth-Heinemann Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-5276-6, ISBN: 0-7506-5276-4
"Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers is an unparalleled text that explains sports tourism as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon that stems from the unique interaction of activity, people and place. Unlike other texts, it seeks to present sports tourism as a unique area that produces its own unique issues, concerns and controversies.The text tackles these issues from three viewpoints: participants: examining the p ..."
Sport & Tourism(1st Edition) A Reader by MikeWeed Hardcover, 596 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-42687-9, ISBN: 0-415-42687-1
"This Reader provides comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature in sports tourism. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by a substantial introduction from the editor, it presents the key themes, state of the art research and new conceptual thinking in sports tourism studies. Topics covered include: understanding the sports tourist impacts of sports tourism policy and management considerations for sports tourism approaches to ..."
"This new major work on sport and leisure management takes a wide and holistic view of the topic, conceptualising sport and leisure management as an area of study that is underpinned by a range of social science disciplines, including, but ..."