Tourism and Cricket

Richard Butler

ISBN 10: 1845414527 / ISBN 13: 9781845414528

Published by Channel View Publications Ltd, GB, 2014

About this Item

This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The pattern of cricket as a sport and as a tourist attraction is highly dynamic. This volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It looks at the ways in which cricket's extended duration (compared to other sports) creates a different dynamic in terms of visitor-host interaction. It also considers how following cricket as a tourist and a participant causes exposure to unique pressures and results in unique behaviour. The book will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tourism and Cricket
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845414527
• ISBN 13: 9781845414528
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 282 grams

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Synopsis

This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The pattern of cricket as a sport and as a tourist attraction is highly dynamic. This volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It looks at the ways in which cricket's extended duration (compared to other sports) creates a different dynamic in terms of visitor-host interaction. It also considers how following cricket as a tourist and a participant causes exposure to unique pressures and results in unique behaviour. The book will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.

About the Authors

Tom Baum is Programme Director, Hong Kong University SPACE programmes in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Strathclyde. His research agenda includes: people and work in low skills service work, with a particular focus on the international hospitality and tourism sector as well as human resource development and skills planning and formation, education and training, at a macro (national) and company level.

Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His most recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Tourism and Indigenous Peoples (with Anna Carr, 2025) and The Tourism Area Life Cycle: Review, Relevance and Revision (Channel View Publications, 2024).