Sports Tourism and Community Development: Exploring the Links and Sentiments

Title

Sports Tourism and Community Development: Exploring the Links and Sentiments

Creator

Sarkar B.; Mohanty P.; Nagarjuna G.

Description

Sports tourism has emerged as one of the most effective forms of tourism through its ability to satisfy the need of modern-day tourists who prioritize novelty, engagement, and experience. Meanwhile, the sustainable community (development) agenda is also parallelly getting its due attention in the form of SDG11. Recently, the power of sports tourism and events in harnessing community development has been discussed in various patches. However, the structure and mechanism of this growing linkage are rarely discussed holistically, making generalizability a challenging goal to achieve. Further, the aspect of sustainability needs to be studied more. In this regard, the authors of this chapter have attempted to develop a conceptual framework mapping the linkages of sports events and community development, keeping the sustainability agenda in the backdrop. Further, sentiment analysis through NVivo has been performed on all significant works to understand the general sentiments across various communities regarding sports tourism contributing to their development. While the framework development objective is conceptual in nature, the retrieval of the significant themes and sentiments is attained through analytical research. It is concluded that the impacts of sports tourism and events on communities align with the three (triple) bottom lines of sustainable development, i.e., economic, sociocultural, and environmental. These influences result in the sustainable development of the communities. Sentiment analysis points toward the positive sentiment for sports tourism resulting in community development in most cases analyzed. This research will assist both academicians and practitioners in better understanding the linkage between sports tourism and community development and devise measures to make this linkage more sustainable. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2024.

Source

Springer International Handbooks of Education, Vol-Part F3475, pp. 1171-1189.

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

Springer Nature

Subject

Community development; SDG11; Sports events; Sports tourism; Sustainable communities

Coverage

Sarkar B., Department of Business and Management, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Mohanty P., Department of Business and Management, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Nagarjuna G., Department of Tourism Management, Christ University, Bangalore, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 21971951

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-4318-6_76

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