Sports Tourism Essay

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The concept of sport tourism Travel (as an individual and as a package tourist) can, according to Kramer (1998) be characterized, on the one hand, as a culturally defined indulgence and demonstration of consumer society wealth in the “prosperous regions of the world” (157). On the other hand, travel and tourism are also an appropriation of the world, underlaid with symbolic appreciation and values. “As active environmental appropriation, as explorative behavior, travelling has added since long ago to human experience, broadened and enriched the horizons, possibilities of experience and practices of life” (Kramer, 1998, 164). This active environmental appropriation is understood by Kramer as a qualitative and not as a judgmental characteristic. Thereby, as with the sport concept, the quantitative and qualitative level of the appropriation can be different, and thus also the consequences which can be drawn from the respective subjects are dependent on the situation and the motivation. Travel qualifies itself not least through an appointed, externally applied, seemingly “objective” measure of appropriation processes, which the pedagogic of travel absorbs for itself and can, as a result of this, already be found at a relatively low level. The central sense of tourism and travel is therefore the search and appropriation of preferred space and/or places beyond the daily and familiar habitats with different motives for appropriating the natural, anthropologically configured, social and cultural environments which are found there. Both the motive as well as the form of appropriation are developed differently in the external boundary and the internal relationships. Let us now ask what differentiates the participation of sport “at home” from the participation in sport “on holiday” or during a journey. Expressed abstractly, sport tourism can be defined in broad terms as well
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