Sport, tourism and place identity in the Lake District 1800-1950

Huggins, Mike ORCID logo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2789-4756 and Gregson, Keith (2016) Sport, tourism and place identity in the Lake District 1800-1950. In: Walton, John K. and Wood, Jason, (eds.) The making of a cultural landscape: the English Lake District as tourist destination, 1750-2010. Heritage, culture and identity . Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 181-200. Full text not available from this repository.

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Abstract

Modern studies of sport tourism are present-centred, their theory and methodology dominated by sports marketing and sports management disciplines, and focusing on a multitude of activities, destinations and site that reflect the economic importance of sport in contemporary society. In Britain, by the 1990s, sport accounted for approximately 2 per cent of all workers and contributed substantially to Britain's G.D.P. About 20 per cent of trips in Britain then related to sports participation and about 50 per cent had a sports component.

Item Type: Book Section
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138246256
Departments: Academic Departments > Institute of Arts (IOA) > Humanities
Additional Information: Chapter 9 within book. Mike Huggins is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria.
Depositing User: Anna Lupton
Date Deposited: 11 Apr 2017 14:37
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2024 16:02
URI: https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2869
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