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Sport tourism as driving force for destinations’ sustainability.

1. Introduction

1.1. sport tourism’s main characteristics, 1.2. impact of sport tourism development in sustainable growth of an area, 2. study area, 2.1. the case study area: adriatic–ionian region, 2.2. sport tourism events and initiatives in the study area, 2.2.1. athens marathon: the authentic, athens, greece, 2.2.2. windsurf club vassiliki, lefkada, greece, 2.2.3. ‘alexander the great’ city marathon event, thessaloniki, greece, 2.2.4. albania water sports, albania, 2.2.5. adriatrek, petrovac, montenegro, 2.2.6. the adventure tourism capital of slovenia: bovec destination, bovec, slovenia, 2.2.7. croatia as a heritage and hiking destination, croatia, 2.2.8. a.ni.m.us—adriatic–ionian games for social inclusion, ancona, italy, 2.2.9. beogradski marathon, belgrade, serbia, 2.2.10. cyclotourism boost after covid-19 in adrion region, 2.3. area’s dynamic for sustainable tourism development through sport events and initiatives, 3.1. survey’s scope, 3.2. data collection.

• Whether sport tourism can help economic development in their area and how;
• On top of economic development, how other aspects of sport tourism development can benefit their area;
• Whether their area has specific characteristics (environmental, structural, facilities, services, etc.) which fit with sport tourism promotion and in what way;
• Which are the best examples of sport tourism services (i.e., programs/activities) promoted in their area and why they are considered successful;
• Whether sport tourism in their area can be seen as an autonomous form of tourism to be developed and/or a form supporting of mainstream tourism;
• What is the profile of sport tourists in their region (e.g., age, country, family, socio-economic status);
• Whether their country/area is investing in sport tourism and how;
• Which stakeholders are involved in their area in relation to sport tourism promotion and development;
• Whether there is strong support from the (a) local or (b) central government or (c) both on promoting sport tourism and how;
• Which are the main challenges/difficulties in sport tourism promotion in their area;
• How is sport tourism promoted (e.g., media, social media, and the internet) in their area;
• Comparing mass tourism vs. alternative tourism (sport tourism included), which is the best tourism model for their area and why;
• Whether COVID-19 has influenced (a) tourism and/or (b) sport tourism in their area and how and what were the measures to get back to normality;
• Whether there is the skilled human capital to support sport tourism development;
• What is their future strategy for the development of sport tourism.

5. Potentials for Boosting Sustainable Growth in the Adrion Areas through Sport Tourism

• Promotion of sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth;
• Ensuring healthy lives and promotion of wellbeing for all ages;
• Protection, restoration, and promotion of sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystem;
• Promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies.

6. Policy Recommendations

6.1. sport tourism products, 6.2. target groups and service tender, 6.3. sport tourism management, 6.4. sport tourism impact, 6.5. sport tourism marketing, 6.6. sport tourism sustainability and support, 7. discussion, 8. conclusions, author contributions, institutional review board statement, informed consent statement, data availability statement, conflicts of interest.

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What is economic impact of sport tourism?

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• primary data- typically visitor surveys and formal economic models. However the key factor in determining the most appropriate step for economic impact calculation is primary and secondary data.

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If you followed the Paris 2024 Olympics broadcast, you’ll have noticed the breathtaking city backdrop to events, the festive atmosphere and active support of spectators. Touted as marking a new era , the games introduced several innovations in its planning and delivery – starting with an opening ceremony outside a stadium for the first time ever.

I was fortunate to be among the Paris crowd as both a researcher and a sport fan. I research and teach sport tourism and international events. I’ve studied event impacts, especially on city branding, and the legacies of sport mega-events, most notably the 2010 men’s football World Cup in South Africa.

Read more: Fewer cities can afford to host the Olympics, but Paris 2024 may be clever enough to turn a profit

Sport tourism in South Africa is already a US$3.6 billion industry and forecast to grow. The country has a track record of hosting big sport events – like the annual Cape Town Rugby 7s tournament, the Nedbank Golf Challenge and the Comrades Marathon . It’s an appealing year-round golf destination with a developed sport and active leisure industry. There’s every reason to view this as a high-growth potential, niche economic sector for the country.

Although the last sport mega-event hosted by South Africa was in 2010 , there have been a few standout major events since then – the Africa Cup of Nations men’s football in 2013, the 2023 Netball World Cup and the 2023 T20 Women’s World Cup cricket among them.

So, what lessons can South Africa learn from France – a nation that is dominating innovations and development in the sport tourism industry?

1. Keep the pipeline flowing

France has succeeded in hosting an impressive pipeline of events. The successive mega-events of the Rugby World Cup 2023 and the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games have been interspersed with regular major events that attract tourism and boost nation-branding – like the Tour de France cycling, the French Open tennis and the Le Mans motorsport event. Beyond these major events, France hosts multiple big sporting events year-round. The nation continues to top the United Nations tourism destinations list , with sport adding an extra reason for tourists to visit or extend their stay, as spectators or participants.

While South Africa boasts a healthy number of annual sport events , the major and mega-events on this list have not been sustained. South Africa’s next mega-event will be the men’s Cricket World Cup in 2027.

Global event research indicates that it’s a portfolio of regular events, interspersed with major and mega-events, that really captures global attention and drives tourism numbers. The US is following this pattern, supporting the hosting of a succession of mega-events in the coming decade to complement its array of annual events. The men’s football World Cup in 2026 is followed by the Olympics in 2028 and the men’s Rugby World Cup in 2032.

2. Sustain the economic effects

Paris 2024 will leave a lasting tangible impact on some lesser-developed urban areas. A few years ago, for example, the Vaires-sur-Marne region strategically invested in the infrastructure to host the canoe, kayak and rowing events. Local entrepreneurs and businesses benefited from spectators passing by their stalls or establishments just outside the official event perimeter. It’s crucial, in South Africa, to find ways to include local entrepreneurs and businesses as local suppliers and benefactors from sport events.

The Seine-Saint-Denis municipality was targeted as an area for improvement. It’s now home to a new aquatics facility and the athletes’ village , which will become a residential and commercial development. The area is now served by a new public transport hub.

Admittedly, it’s too early to assess the longer-term sustainability and impact of these developments, which is now a focus of a collaborative research project. However, the planning of Paris 2024 indicates the development platform and transformational potential that mega-events of this nature hold for a city.

In South Africa, sport facilities are still largely based within historically advantaged neighbourhoods. France took a strategic and intentional approach to spreading benefits to other cities across the country, even hosting the surfing event in the French territory of Tahiti. South African events should seek to spread benefits and opportunities associated with larger-scale events to smaller towns and outside traditional urban hubs.

3. Keep your costs down

Mega-events have notoriously been associated with massive investments in facility development, often leading to “ white elephant ” (unused) stadiums after an event.

Paris has set a new standard in reimagining venues in creative and innovative ways, and in creating temporary stadiums in iconic locations. They also invested in sporting infrastructure over a long period not included in the Olympic budget. For example, the Roland Garros tennis centre was renovated to include roofs over the major courts, allowing the venue to become multi-purpose. After the French Open in June, the centre was easily transformed to host both Olympic tennis, and the Olympic boxing competition, in an indoor facility.

Paris is forecast to be the “cheapest” Olympics this century. Paris should inspire the creative use of town halls, museums, village squares and other public spaces for hosting events in South Africa.

4. Get people involved

The vision for Paris 2024 was to take the games to the people. It set out to bring events into the city centre and make many more events accessible to the public. This aligned with the International Olympic Committee vision to make the games younger, more urban and more accessible.

Organisers harnessed technology to personalise communication, ticketing and transport planning. While digital tickets have become common, Paris set new standards through its regular fan communications via email and apps to support spectator transport, ticketing and news.

Read more: Paris Olympics 2024: faster, higher, stronger -- and more data-driven

Through innovative stadium entertainment activations (a combination of live deejays, stadium lighting and artificial intelligence broadcasts on large screens), organisers were able to create interactive and memorable sensory experiences.

South Africa would do well to embrace these trends to develop smart events of the future. The country already has the foundations in terms of infrastructure and event hosting capability as well as a developed tourism sector. The example of Paris 2024 has provided insights on how mega-events can be hosted in a more economical and sustainable manner.

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Article publication date: 22 October 2020

Issue publication date: 2 November 2021

The purpose of this study aims to examine sports tourism through a conceptual lens. The study offers a deep assessment of the general structure and purpose of sports tourism. Thus, the authors aim to determine the contributions of scientific studies in the field of sports tourism to sports tourism literature.

Design/methodology/approach

A qualitative research design was created and data collected using document analysis. The research articles were categorized and analyzed according to their objectives, journals of publication, keywords, application areas, research methods used, data collection techniques and findings

It was been determined that the research articles in the field of sports tourism contributed significantly to the sports tourism literature and to the cumulative progress of the field.

Research limitations/implications

The implications of this study is that only publications in the field of sports tourism (in the tourism category) indexed in the Web of Science between 2014 and 2018 were examined.

Practical implications

Studies to be carried out in the field of sports tourism should be seen as continuations, rather than repetitions, of one another. Thus, more information about the field of sports tourism is needed to better articulate the structure of the field for the benefit of future researchers.

Social implications

There is a need for studies to contribute to the development of sports tourism in the literature. This study aims to take a step in this direction. With the increase of activities to be carried out in both the field and practice of sports tourism, a better relationship will be established between sports, local people and relevant stakeholders.

Originality/value

More theoretical studies in this field (Gibson, 1998a; Soedjatmiko, 2015) suggest that the field of sports tourism can be further developed. In light of this call, the present study will provide an overview of sports tourism research as a whole, thus contributing to future research by its own merits. It will guide the authors to determine how activities in the field of sports tourism have grown and how they are progressing

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Mesci, M. , Pekerşen, Y. and Mesci, Z. (2021), "An overall assessment of sports tourism articles", Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights , Vol. 4 No. 5, pp. 676-707. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHTI-04-2020-0054

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Mountain bike tourism shifting the fortunes of Flinders Ranges' Melrose

By Annabel Francis

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Topic: Mountain Biking

Trail builder Garry Patterson says the Epic Mountain Bike Trail is not an easy ride. ( ABC News: Brant Cumming )

Tourists are flocking to the Flinders Ranges town of Melrose, after it turned its tourism focus to mountain biking. 

A challenging new trail with "breathtaking" views is bringing more cyclists to the area. 

A tourism data found there were 577,000 day trips and 761,000 overnight visitors to the Flinders Ranges and outback last year.

A town in regional South Australia is embracing mountain bike tourism to help combat its declining population.

The multi-million-dollar Epic Mountain Bike Trail opened late last year in Melrose — a town in the Flinders Ranges known for its proximity to Mount Remarkable.

Melrose cafe and bike shop owner Richard Bruce said it was not that long ago that the town was "potentially looking at the post office and general store being closed down".

Melrose business owners Richard and Kerri Bruce have seen a recent boost in trade. ( Supplied: Flow Mountain Bike )

"We're not seeing those problems anymore — we're seeing that income coming to the community," he said.

"We're not in danger of these businesses closing down. In fact, we're seeing new businesses open up, like the new brewery up the road."

Mr Bruce opened his business in 2008 and he has seen a lot of change since then.

"We've always had a nice cruisy growth of around 9 to 10 per cent, and then obviously with COVID, people getting locked in the borders … we saw a bit of a spike and coming out of COVID we've seen that spike hold," he said.

"We're seeing people come up here from all over the country."

Melrose is 277 kilometres north of Adelaide, in the Flinders Ranges. ( Supplied: Flow Mountain Bike )

What makes the trail 'epic'?

Garry Patterson was contracted to design and construct the 38-kilometre track and said it was "a pretty crazy trail".

"Lots of brilliant views, very tough terrain — it's exactly what you'd expect in the Flinders Ranges," he said.

"It was never designed to be an easy trail, otherwise it wouldn't be epic.

"It's meant to be a challenge — when you've finished this, you know you've really achieved something."

The Epic Mountain Bike Trail was a major component of the $10 million Remarkable Southern Flinders Agreement funded by the state and federal governments to promote regional tourism.

Trail builder Garry Patterson says the track has breathtaking views. ( Supplied: Flow Mountain Bike )

Mr Patterson said the trail was extraordinarily popular.

"I've ridden all the different epics — I've built another one in north-east Victoria … completely different to this one — this one's just spectacular, the views, breathtaking," he said.

"You want something that's going to draw people internationally, nationally — that's what you're after, that's the end game."

Other destinations across Australia, like Derby in northern Tasmania, have also embraced mountain bike trail tourism, but Mr Patterson said South Australia's climate did offer some advantages, particularly during winter.

"Here, you can definitely ride this all year round, but having said that it gets pretty damn hot in summer," he said.

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District Council of Mount Remarkable interim chief executive Martin Borgas said Melrose had always been popular among bushwalkers and there had been a recent transition towards cycling tourism.

Council chief executive Martin Borgas says tourism in the area has undergone a huge transition. ( ABC News: Brant Cumming )

"The Epic bike trail's been a long-term aspiration since the cycling conversation picked up, so it's been a good 18 months planning and 18 months of execution," he said.

"We've seen a couple of businesses spring up [and] people from outside of the area have also created opportunities for locals to consider starting a business.

"It's awesome to see with each extra caravan … visitor and cyclist that comes through … the energy and vitality of each of these regional towns really starts to pick up pace."

A recent snapshot from the South Australian Tourism Commission found there were 577,000 day trips and 761,000 overnight visitors to the Flinders Ranges and outback last year.

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New Jersey’s nine casinos are not seeing a desired summer rebound, according to the latest figures released by state regulators.

Although revenue surged from online gambling and online and mobile sports betting in July, the numbers were far more lackluster at the in-person casinos , which are all based in the South Jersey seaside gambling resort town of Atlantic City. 

“While many were hopeful that the summer of 2024 for Atlantic City casinos would see a rebound in drive-in visitors after last year’s trend of people taking their 'dream vacation' and flying to destinations, the July in-person gaming numbers suggest that is not the case,” said Jane Bokunewicz, director of Stockton University’s Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality and Tourism, which studies New Jersey’s casino market. 

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Bokunewicz pointed to recent air travel figures put out by the federal Transportation Security Administration : 32 million air travelers between the end of June and July 4 weekend. 

Those suggest that “more people are choosing fly-to destinations for their vacations compared to drive-to destinations or even ‘staycations,’” she said.

“This would be a reversal or more likely a rebound of recent trends that have favored drive-to destinations as the result of some travelers’ post-pandemic reluctance to fly,” Bokunewicz said. 

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Added Bill Pascrell III, a casino industry lobbyist, "Post-pandemic, many people in the region have built up aspirations to go on extended vacations abroad and out of the area."

Other factors like beach replenishment from storm erosion, as well as the cancellation of the 2024 airshow typically scheduled for July also kept visitors away from the seaside gambling mecca.

Online gambling revenue in July was over $195 million — or a 26% increase from last year — said the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement , which regulates the casinos. 

Revenue from sports betting was $80 million last month, or a 31.2% increase from July last year. On the other hand, the casinos made $272 million last month at their brick and mortar operations in Atlantic City, which was down 6.1% from last year. 

All told, New Jersey's nine casinos and their online gambling operations brought in $548 million this past July, or an 8.2% year-over-year increase.

While casinos saw their highest revenue numbers in a over decade, that was almost exclusively thanks to internet gambling, said James Plousis, chair of the Casino Control Commission, another state regulatory body. 

Plousis, Pascrell and Corey Sharp, a writer for the gambling trade publication PlayNJ.com, all noted that July had fewer weekend days this year — eight — versus the nine in August.

“The casinos have not fully recovered their in-person visitation,” Jeffrey Vasser, head of the state’s Division of Travel and Tourism, which markets New Jersey to other regions around the nation and the world as a vacation destination, said in an interview earlier this year .

Meanwhile, business travel has struggled to return to its pre-pandemic levels, said Vasser and Joshua Friedlander, vice president of research at the U.S. Travel Association. 

That poses a problem for a municipality that — with its ample conference, convention and hotel space — depends on business travel, especially during the colder months after tourists return home. 

“People are still doing some of their meetings virtually,” Vasser said. “They may still do their big meeting in person, but some of the regional meetings … they’re doing virtually.”

Losing out to regional competition

State officials in New York are offering three casino licenses in the New York City area . 

Mark Giannantonio, president of Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City and of the Casino Association of New Jersey, a trade group, referred to such a prospect as a “threat” to the South Jersey gambling city. 

Meanwhile James Allen, chief executive officer at Hard Rock International — which has a hotel casino in Atlantic City — previously estimated that between 20% and 30% of Atlantic City’s visitors come from North Jersey and the New York area, according to PlayNJ .

New Jersey already faces competition from several casinos close to its borders: Empire Casino in Yonkers, just north of New York City; Resorts World in Queens; several casinos in Philadelphia, and another in Delaware. 

And several efforts are underway to build out new casinos in the New York City metropolitan area. 

"I don't think Atlantic City is the destination location it used to be in the past. It seems to be less likely that people will want to spend a day or weekend in Atlantic City for the beach and gambling in the summer," said Sharp of PlayNJ.

Jeff Gural, owner of the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, wants to revisit the idea for a casino in the racetrack’s backyard, with a price tag as high as $2 billion. 

“I can’t imagine that people in northern New Jersey are going to be happy driving over the George Washington Bridge and paying $18 in tolls and sitting in traffic in order to get to the casino,” he told NorthJersey.com in April. 

Daniel Munoz covers business, consumer affairs, labor and the economy for NorthJersey.com and The Record. 

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The CSRIF is a cost-shared program launched as part of the 2024 Budget: Building a Better Ontario to:

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Man charged with attempted murder in stabbing of 11-year-old girl in a London tourism hot spot

A Police officer stands at the scene in Leicester Square, as a man was arrested with the accusation of stabbing an 11-year-old girl and 34-year-old woman, in London, Monday Aug. 12, 2024. (James Manning/PA via AP)

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LONDON (AP) — A man accused of stabbing an 11-year-old girl in London’s bustling theater district was charged Tuesday with attempted murder.

Ioan Pintaru put the girl in a headlock and stabbed her eight times, seriously wounding her, prosecutors said.

The girl was hospitalized and required surgery for wounds to her face, shoulder, wrist and neck area, prosecutor David Burns said.

Authorities haven’t offered a motive for the attack, but police said there was no suggestion the stabbing was terror-related and they don’t believe the suspect knew the mother or daughter.

AP AUDIO: Man charged with attempted murder in stabbing of 11-year-old girl in a London tourism hot spot

AP correspondent Karen Chammas reports on a stabbing in London.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that officials were supporting two Australians injured in London. No further details would be supplied for privacy reasons, the statement said.

The attack happened around 11:30 a.m. Monday in Leicester Square, a tourism hot spot, outside a shop selling tea.

An employee of the tea shop and other bystanders jumped on the suspect and held him to the ground until police arrived. A steak knife was recovered.

“Fortunately members of the public intervened, which prevented any further injury being made to the child,” Burns said.

The girl’s mother wasn’t wounded, though she initially appeared to be because she was covered in her daughter’s blood, police said.

Pintaru, 32, a Romanian citizen, who also faces a knife charge, was held in custody. He was ordered to appear on Sept. 10 at the Central Criminal Court known as the Old Bailey.

The stabbing occurred during a recent rise in knife crime in Britain, which is on edge after days of violence as crowds spouting anti-immigrant and Islamophobic slogans clashed with police in dozens of cities and towns.

The disturbances were fueled by far-right activists, who used social media to spread misinformation about a mass stabbing that killed three girls during a Taylor Swift-themed dance event.

Associated Press writer Charlotte Graham-McLay contributed from Wellington, New Zealand.

10 Moments of Beauty at the Paris Olympics

The Summer Games are known for athletic excellence, but they provide plenty of aesthetic excellence along the way.

Léon Marchand and the rest of the Olympians at the Paris Games have put on a show — in more ways than one. Credit... James Hill for The New York Times

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Some people watch the Olympics for the events. Others watch for the hot athletes.

This is nothing new. Going all the way back to the first century, the orator Dio Chrysostom praised the “beauty” of the boxer Melankomas, who competed in the ancient Greek athletic games .

That same feeling resonates in 2024. A number of participants in the Paris Summer Olympics have distinguished themselves for things beyond their athletic talent. In an extreme case, a pole-vaulter gained a great deal of attention — some might say notoriety — for failing in a unique way. Others caught the public’s attention through moments of love or kindness — a different but equally palpable form of beauty.

There are numerous options to choose from, but here are 10 moments of beauty at the games.

Swimmers and Their Abs

After Italy won bronze in the 4 × 100-meter freestyle relay on July 27, the Italian swimmer Thomas Ceccon, 23, raised his arms in celebration. In doing so, he unintentionally bared his well-cut abs , which had many thirsting on the internet .

(Ceccon, who won gold in the 100-meter backstroke, was later found sleeping on the ground next to a bench in Olympic Village after he had complained about the conditions at the village.)

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