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Question: Active Sports Tourists Competing in the 2011 MBNA Chester Marathon

Answer: Sports tourism has received increasing attention in the academic literature of late, as well
as from the industry by tourism suppliers, event organisers and destination managers. This
niche market is growing in size and encompasses a wide range of tourism experiences,
from taking part in sporting holidays through to spectating at sporting events. As noted by
Higham and Hinch (1999), the twentieth century has seen the rapid development of both
sport and tourism; both are among the largest and fastest-growing industries of our day.
Moreover, the phenomena of mass participation in sport and tourism are closely related,
with sport and tourism activity increasingly taking place simultaneously. From a tourism
perspective, Standeven and deKnop (1999) have remarked on the sharing of resources
and infrastructure that often occurs within the destination by both tourism and sport, while
the “democratisation of sport and tourism has resulted in most sports offering the potential
to generate tourist activity” (Higham and Hinch, 2002, p.176).

(Source: , 07 Oct 2021)

Source Link: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/610406/2/Chapter%20Active_sports_tourism%20Miller%20oct%202012.pdf