Tourism and Cricket : : Travels to the Boundary / / ed. by Tom Baum, Richard Butler.
This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The pattern of cricket as a sport and as a tourist attraction is highly dynamic. This volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Tourism and Cultural Change ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part 1: The Development of Patterns
- 1. The Changing Boundaries and Geography of Cricket
- 2. Looking for Witney Scrotum? Cricket, Tourism and Images of England
- Part 2: The Homes of Cricket
- 3. Rupertswood and Sunbury: Commemorating Cricket and the Birthplace of 'the Ashes'
- 4. Nostalgia at the Boundary: A Study at Lord's Cricket Ground
- 5. Development of the Rose Bowl as a Venue for Cricket and Other Events
- 6. Cricket: Biology and Bali
- Part 3: The True Costs
- Introduction
- 7. Cricketers as Tourists; Analyses of Culture Shock, Travel Motivation and Learning
- 8. Sport Tourism as a Means of Reconciliation? The Case of India-Pakistan Cricket
- 9. On the March with the Barmy Army
- 10. An Ethnographic View from the Boundary: India vs England, The Fourth Test, Nagpur, December 2012
- 11. Recollections of a Coarse Cricketer: Ninety Nine Percent Boredom, One Percent Terror
- Stumps
- Subject Index