Sports Event Management (New Directions in Tourism Analysis)

Exploring sports event management from a Caribbean, small island developing state perspective, this volume uses the events of the recently held Cricket World Cup 2007 (CWC 2007) as a launching pad for identifying best practices and the way forward. The CWC 2007 was the first time in any sport, a World Cup was staged in nine independent countries. None of the Caribbean territories hosting a match has a population larger than Jamaica's 3.4 million; most have less than a quarter of a million people; economies are small and infrastructure limited. The hosting of this event produced significant lessons that the region and the world can learn from concerning sports event management.

Dr. Leslie-Ann Jordan is Hospitality/Tourism Lecturer in the Department of Management Studies at the University of the West Indies & Ben Tyson is Professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University, USA, Dr. Carolyn Hayle is Senior Programme Officer at the Institute for Hospitality and Tourism, University of the West Indies and Dr. David Truly is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Central Connecticut State University, USA