Syksy
This course aims to enhance your understanding of the international and national sport tourism sector and its various aspects. The course contents help you to understand the significance of the sport tourism sector. The knowledge and skills gained from this course can be effectively utilized in your career plans.
Learning objectives Upon completing this course you will be able to identify different actors and operations in sport tourism. You understand the motives of sport tourists and the theme’s significance to the competitiveness of companies. You understand the concepts, phenomena and special characteristics related to sport tourism nationally and internationally. And you identify the sustainability and environmental issues affecting sport tourism.
Special characteristics of sport tourism Sport and the tourism experiences Sport tourism markets Sport tourism development Sport event tourism Sustainability in sport tourism
Tourism and/or sport business studies.
100% Online pedagogy. Teaching is conducted completely online with the use of recorded lectures, articles, and assignments.
Brent W. Ritchie, Daryl Adair: Sport Tourism: Interrelations, Impacts and Issues (2004)
Simon Hudson, Bennet P. Lientz and Kathryn Rea Hudson: Sport and Adventure Tourism (2003)
Mark Dodds, Kevin Heisey and Aila Ahonen: Routledge Handbook of International Sport Business (2018)