Active event sport tourists (AESTs) are those who taking part in organised events as competitors. Each is held a particular destination and, of highly competitive industry, both and destinations offer an ever-widening range services, striving to make their visitors satisfied. In order better understand, conceptualize manage the AESTs’ satisfaction, primary research based on questionnaire survey...

This article examines participatory sport event (PSE) organizers' perceptions of, and interactions with, the communities in which they host events. Internationally, PSEs are burgeoning popularity may be strategically leveraged to promote positive economic social development locations. Yet little is known about who organizes such events, or how PSE organizers approach their with hosting communit...

Sport is widely believed to have a positive impact on quality of life. Sport events are perceived as elements of a city’s destination attractiveness for tourists and residents. However, socio-cultural impact studies of sporting mega-events, although limited, indicate that there may be a variety of positive as well as negative impacts for the quality of life for residents of a sport mega-event h...