Sports management and facilities

Experiences in nature are now recognised as being fundamental to human health and well-being.

Highly practical and engaging, Sports Marketing equips students with the skills, techniques, and tools they need to be successful marketers in any sporting environment.

Originally published in 1971 The Countryside on View is a handbook which provides extensive information about the many ways in which visitors to rural areas may find out about what they have come to enjoy.

This book explores the contemporary dynamics of European football's political economy, mapping the various market and regulatory forces that shape its current position and development.

As more people realize the cardiovascular, metabolic and muscular benefits that regular physical activity provides, the risk for potential injury also increases.

This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits.

The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans.

At a time of profound change in the economic, social, political and sporting landscape, sport development faces important challenges.

This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation.

The concept of social capital refers to the ways in which people make use of their social networks in "e;getting ahead.

Collective Bargaining in Professional Sports provides a timely and practical overview of the impact and importance of the collective bargaining process in the business of professional sports in the United States.

Logistics are a critical element in the planning and realization of any large-scale event.

Digital Sports Journalism gives detailed guidance on a range of digital practices for producing content for smartphones and websites.

Aimed at those at the sharp end of contract grounds maintenance, this book will provide guidance for anyone unfamiliar with the process of contracting work out.

This timely book critically explores the past, present, and future trends and needs of sport tourism development from a global perspective.

Sports Journalism combines decades of on-the-field reporting and in-the-classroom teaching to present the most comprehensive and contemporary playbook for student journalists.

Fantasy sport has become big business.

This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation.

This edited text compiles advanced material relating to strategy and marketing in the field of sports business.

The contribution of volunteers in terms of time and expertise is integral to sport development and delivery from 'sport for all' to elite levels.

This book examines the ways in which sport for development and peace (SDP) offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship to take place through and within sport, and how innovation in the context of SDP contributes to social and economic value for underrepresented and marginalised groups and individuals.

Sport is a global business.

It is now widely recognized that recreation is as important as work.

This book contextualizes the Munich massacre as one of the factors that contributed to a re-thinking of security strategies in the early 1970s, a moment in the evolution of modern governments' fight against terrorism.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia.

This book explores continental perspectives on football's new geopolitical economy, examining how sport, politics, and the global economy have emerged in different parts of the world.

This book offers a rare chance to understand how sport and architecture come together to create an outstanding building type - a symbol of our times.

Acknowledging China's established status as a global sporting superpower, this is the first book to systematically investigate sport policy in that country.

Women and girls are often excluded from organised sport or face challenges in accessing sport or developing within sport.

What remains of a great sporting spectacle after the last race is run or the final match is played?

How is sport marketing being transformed by new media and technology, by globalization and by the opening of new markets and sources of revenue?

The maritime environment includes both the water resource of the terrestrial coast and estuarine and coastal inshore waters.

How can nations improve their chances of winning medals in international sport?

The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business.

Drug free sport is an unattainable aspiration.

Throughout the developed world there is an increasing prevalence of childhood obesity.

In recent years there has been a steady increase in the racial and ethnic diversity of the playing workforce in many sports around the world.

This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability.

Economists have entered into the realm of sports to provide what they believe to be more cogent explanations for sport-related behaviour and to suggest ways in which incentives can improve sports outcomes.

Over the last twenty years or so there has been a sharp increase in interest from national sports federations and governments in the development of effective elite sport systems, particularly focused on achieving success in the summer and winter Olympic Games.

Remarkable Football Grounds is a collection of some of the most memorable places to watch and play football around the world.

This collection of essays, written by a number of respected sport management scholars, addresses many of the challenges and issues facing today's sport management academic programs.

A well-constructed and reasoned debunking of the mythology of amateurism in for-profit NCAA athleticsFor the last 60-plus-years, as the revenue-generating capacity of Power Five football and men's basketball has dramatically increased, NCAA Division I Power Five football and men's basketball players (college profit-athletes) have been economically exploited, their labor has been severely restricted.

Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc.

Global and authoritative, this textbook maps modern, live experience media, the categories that thrive on real-time engagement and human connection - even in the age of synthetic content, AI and the Metaverse.

The book gives practical instruction and guidance in the use of accounting for effective control and higher profit in hotel and catering operations.

Effective leadership is essential in any sports organisation, both in the boardroom and on the training pitch.

In June 2014, Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony.

This book examines the relationships between sport event hosting and community development goals.

Contemporary strength and conditioning coaching is, for the most part, informed by the exercise sciences, with little engagement being made with sociocultural and pedagogical perspectives which have emerged in sports coaching research over the last two decades.