Sports Tourism: participants, policy and providers tackles these issues from three viewpoints:* participants: examining the profiles, motivations and behaviour patterns of sports tourists to create a typology of participants.* policy: analyses the response by policy makers to this phenomenon and the problems of achieving integration between two sectors with historically different cultures.* providers: their motivations, aims, objectives and strategies.* A unique text, covering the subject in unprecedented depth. * Extended case study chapters provide practical illustrations of the conceptual frameworks and theories.* Substantial areas of the book underpinned by extensive empirical data and primary research.