Running Events Policies, Marketing and Impacts
Synopsis
This is the first book to critically examine the relationship between running events in local, national, and international welfare policy, their marketing and management, and the resulting social impacts.Drawing on original empirical research, the book presents a series of illustrative case studies, with each chapter containing take-home messages for sport and events managers looking to improve their professional practice. Developing a new theoretical perspective on running events, the book presents data from around the world, including five European countries, the US and China. It covers different types of events, from big city marathons to community park runs, and new types of events such as path and trail runs, night runs, ultra runs, xtreme runs and obstacle run, presenting a typology of running events that will help shape future analysis of this rapidly growing sector. The book also examines the market for running events, runners&’ socio-demographic profiles, the main management and marketing approaches and techniques used by organisers, and the socio-economic impacts of running events, such as the effect on people&’s attitudes and behaviours, organisational planning, city promotion and social interactions.
Running events are central to sport at all levels, from grassroots to professional, so this book is essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner working in sport management, sport development, sport policy, the sociology of sport, or event studies.
Book details
- Series:
- European Association for Sport Management Series
- Author:
- Vassil Girginov, Kostas Alexandris, Jeroen Scheerder
- ISBN:
- 9781000852707
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781032294599, 9781032294629, 9781003301691
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Pages:
- 144
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2022-12-27
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Copyright by:
- Kostas Alexandris, Vassil Girginov and Jeroen Scheerder
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Business and Finance, Nonfiction, Sports