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Sport and related leisure, recreation, and tourism industry has experienced a significant booming despite of the impact of COVID. New social phenomena have appeared, including square dancing, “runner-group” culture, event tourism (e.g., marathon), etc. These phenomena are worth investigation from a tourism perspective, especially from a destination perspective, and a special issue studying these phenomena fits the aims of the Tourism Critiques: Practice and Theory to discuss tourism and its social, economic, cultural, environmental and political impacts, with great implications for business practices and policy-making by organisations.
The purpose of this proposed special issue Sport, Leisure, and Tourism Destinations is to showcase cutting-edge and forward-thinking exemplars of social, marketing, and management studies of sport and leisure, as long as their implications in quality of life and well-being in the context of its relationship with tourism destinations, which may also cover relevant areas of recreation, hospitality, and events.
The proposed special issue is further inter-disciplinary in its appreciation of tourism destinations along with sport and leisure in the tourism destination context. Moreover, this special issue is devoted to scholarly exchange between researchers and practitioners focusing on the growth of tourism worldwide.
Pursuant to the above background and its relevance, we propose a special issue entitled Sport, Leisure, and Tourism Destinations, calling for various forms of papers—empirical, theoretical, methodological, conceptual (e.g., potential new models), and review-based.
List of topic areas
- Philosophical foundations and paradigms for sport, leisure, and tourism destinations;
- Tourism oriented sport events and activities;
- Innovative interdisciplinary research where tourism cities are integrated with, for example, leisure, recreation, and events;
- Sport and leisure tourism from the perspectives of physiology, geography, economics, and/or anthropology;
- Meta-analyses on key topics within sport, leisure, and tourism destinations;
- Critical commentary on tourism cities' relevance to the wider field of leisure, parks, recreation, tourism, and sports studies;
- Causality and rigorous research design (e.g., longitudinal and experimental design) for sport, leisure, and tourism destinations;
- Unique data collection methods (e.g., technology-assisted methods such as smartphone, visual data, BIG data) for sport and leisure tourism studies;
- Advanced statistics (e.g., Bayesian, multi-level modeling, rigorous structural equation modeling practice) for sport and leisure tourism studies;
- Qualitative methods and mixed methods for sport and leisure tourism studies;
- Cross-cultural studies of sport, leisure, and tourism destinations;
- Environmental and social psychology studies of sport, leisure, and tourism destinations
Submissions Information
Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Author guidelines must be strictly followed.
Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”.
Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.
Key deadlines
Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 28/02/2024
Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31/07/2024
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