Talk:Sports tourism

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 10:04, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Cleanup / stub / tag

I just ran across this article, and was surprised to find that something in this condition had been on WP this long. It's been almost unchanged for two years (and the quality wasn't good to start with).

For instance, the sole reference for the article—Towards a National Sports Tourism Strategy—doesn't contain anything that's actually covered in this article. Instead, it's a draft proposal on improving the sales & marketing of sports tourism in Australia.

Another example:

From the article

From The Economic Impact of Sport (June 2006)

The increasing and important impact sport has in economic terms requires a more multi-disciplinary approach. The economic sector of sport has transformed itself in the last decade from a traditional Spectators-Subsidies-Sponsors-Local (SSSL)-model to a more global Media-Corporations-Merchandising-Markets or MCCM-model. The new sport model has executed forms of vertical integration in the industry and has created synergisms as an outcome of the relations between business and sport. Some of the economic developments are - Broadcasting rights, merchandising, sponsoring, organizing of mega sporting events, multiplication effect of organizing a sport event, the mobile leisure society, sport tourism, sport and the impact on health, the public-private cooperation in building of sporting infrastructures, the betting industry, raising market share of sporting goods, shoes and clothing.

Whereas the EU has been looking into sport as a social phenomenon, the increasing and important impact sport has in economic terms requires a more multi-disciplinary approach. Sport as an economic sector transformed itself in the last decades from, as Andreff & Staudohar (2002)1 called it, a traditional Spectators-Subsidies-Sponsors-Local (SSSL)-model to a more global Media- Corporations-Merchandising-Markets or MCCM-model. The new sport model has implemented forms of vertical integration in the industry and has created synergisms as a result of the interaction between business and sport. Economic developments such as: broadcasting rights, merchandising, sponsoring, organisation of mega sporting events, potential economic multiplications of organising a sport event, the mobile leisure society, sport tourism, sport and the impact on health, the public-private cooperation in building of sporting infrastructures, the betting industry, raising market share of sporting goods, shoes and clothing, to mention but a few, have resulted in the development of a sport sector with large economic effects far beyond the scope of sport in the narrow sense.

I've seen no reason to not suspect that other paragraphs in this article have been lifted from other sources in the same fashion.

Overall, it looked like someone's school essay, particularly given the lack of references, wikilinks, and wikimarkup. Consequently, I've stubbed it down & tagged it. I hope that someone is able to create a new referenced article on the topic. Dori ❦ (Talk ❖ Contribs ❖ Review) ❦ 22:54, 6 November 2009 (UTC)