This text aims to provide an all-in-one, comprehensive guide for leisure managers. Consisting of 15 chapters, each one focussing on an important aspect of management, this guide contains checklists and practical materials to enable the implementation of the ideas and strategies it provides. It contains many checklists and charts to enable managers to pick up ideas and strategies and it also explains how to implement them in day-to-day leisure management. It shows managers how to develop a more e...
Community Sport and Social Inclusion (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)
This book examines sport as an inclusive and developmental environment, exploring the conditions by which community sport initiatives can promote personal development, health and social cohesion, particularly for at-risk youth. At the empirical core of the book is a multiple disciplinary study of community sport programmes in Flanders, Belgium, involving researchers from social sport sciences, social work, pedagogy and health care sciences. Drawing on this cutting-edge, realist research, the bo...
Wimbledon 2021: The Official Story of The Championships is the comprehensive, entertaining and beautifully illustrated re-telling of a spell-binding fortnight of tennis at the All England Club. Paul Newman's crafted text, coupled with the stunning images captured by Wimbledon's team of award winning photographers, provides readers with a wonderful and comprehensive review of a memorable tournament played out under blue skies and on stunningly green courts. Following the full story of the tourn...
2019 Sugar Skull Planner Flowers Organize Your Weekly, Monthly, & Daily Agenda
by Kai Bleu Journals and Ultimate Planner Journal
El fútbol es un juego emocionante que, sin embargo, no tiene corazón No existe ningún otro fenómeno social que, como el fútbol, se haya adaptado con más naturalidad a la globalización. A pesar de tratarse de un juego en apariencia tan primitivo y alérgico en su práctica a la tecnología, se ha incorporado con enorme facilidad a todos los vehículos de comunicación: prensa, radio, televisión, internet y todas las variables de redes sociales existentes y por venir. Y en este proceso, se ha convert...
Dit veelomvattende, toegankelijke en praktische tekstboek biedt een complete basis in kwalitatieve en kwantitatieve onderzoeksmethoden voor sportstudies studenten. Het boek omvat een stapsgewijze begeleiding vanaf het ontwerpen van een onderzoeksproject tot het verzamelen en analyseren van data en het rapporteren hierover. Het is rijk geillustreerd met sportgerelateerde case studies en met internationale voorbeelden. In deze compleet herziene en geactualiseerde uitgave omvat het boek de meest...
17th September 2020 will mark the centenary of the National Football League. It will reach that landmark as a behemoth, an all-encompassing conglomerate that is the most lucrative sports league in the world - and also the dominant pop culture entity in the United States. The NFL is also making considerable gains worldwide. The International Series has been heading to London since 2007 with incredible sell-outs at the four games in 2019 at Wembley and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadiums.This may lead...
There is only one Arsène Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story. In this definitive autobiography, the world-renowned revolutionary football manager discusses his life and career, sharing his leadership principles for success on and off the field and recalling vivid tales of guiding Arsenal to unprecedented success. One of the most influential figures in world football, Wenger won multiple Premier League titles, a record number of FA Cups, and masterminded Arse...
Managing Drugs in Sport (Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management)
by Jason Mazanov
As ongoing high-profile drug scandals have demonstrated, sports organisations rarely have a coherent strategy to manage the role and relationship their sport has with different types of drugs (from alcohol to supplements to prescription drugs to doping). This important and timely book argues that drug control-led integrity management of sport is more than an ideological battle around doping. The relationship sport has with the drugs industry has become a much broader management problem. The brea...
Contemporary Sport Marketing (World Association for Sport Management)
The international nature of the sport industry requires a global approach to sport marketing practices. Organisations need to develop a good understanding of the laws, regulations, values and norms of the countries and cultures in which they operate. This book brings together world-leading sport marketing scholars from 11 countries to address the most important global, regional, national, and community marketing issues in sport today. Presenting the latest cutting-edge research from countries...
Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management (Routledge International Handbooks)
From the Olympic Games to community-level competitions, sports events can be complex and pose a particular set of managerial challenges. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Event Management surveys the management of sports events around the world of every size and scale, from small to mega-events, including one-off and recurring events, and single-sport and multi-sport events. The book adopts a unique stakeholder perspective, structured around the groups and individuals who have an interest in a...
The Global Football Industry (World Association for Sport Management)
In recent years, football’s status as "the world’s sport" has shown little sign of waning. From increasing participation at grassroots levels and to the highly lucrative media rights deals secured by the top elite clubs, the game appears to be thriving as it continues to excite and enthral billions of people around the globe. Nevertheless, there are a number of challenges and opportunities facing the football industry today that warrant further examination. This book brings together leading in...
The Economics of Leisure (Studies in Economics and Business)
by Richard Taylor and Ian Wilson
Up-to-date readers offering detalled coverage; This series reflects the changing face of the economic climate and business world. The books are completely up-to-date with the latest information and thinking in their areas. Including economics and business, the books in this series give the best coverage on individual topics for today's student. The texts are specifically focused to the needs of AS, A level and first year undergraduate students looking for information on particular areas. Studies...
Futbol: el Juego infinito / Football Infinite Game: The New Football as a Symbol of Globalization
by Jorge Valdano
«El futbol es un juego emocionante que, sin embargo, no tiene corazón.» No existe ningún otro fenómeno social que, como el futbol, se haya adaptado con más naturalidad a la globalización. A pesar de tratarse de un juego en apariencia tan primitivo y alérgico en su práctica a la tecnología, se ha incorporado con enorme facilidad a todos los vehículos de comunicación: prensa, radio, televisión, internet y todas las variables de redes sociales existentes y por venir. En este proceso, se...
Sport Branding Insights (Sport Business Insights)
by Constantino Stavros and Aaron C.T. Smith
In a sporting world dominated by media and money, an understanding of sport branding is an essential skill for any sport manager. Success means being able to ‘brand’ – and therefore differentiate – a sport club, player, code, or event in a highly competitive entertainment market. For anyone seeking to understand or manage sport, this book offers an immediate and salient insight into the complex and dynamic process of creating a powerful sport brand. The book explains how a sport brand goes bey...
New technologies mean that sports clubs and governing bodies are generating more data than ever to help manage their relationship with fans, their performance, and their income streams. This new edition of Winning with Data in the Business of Sports explains how to acquire, store, maintain, and use data in the most effective ways. The key developments are three-fold: new technology, new understanding of how to apply that technology, and the new laws informing and controlling the data that can be...
Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women's National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women's soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. p...
Sport in Latin America (Routledge Research in Sport Business and Management)
The forthcoming Olympics in Rio in 2016, and the FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2014, highlight the profound importance of sport in Latin America. This book is the first to offer a broad survey of the way that sport is managed, governed and organized across the Latin American region, drawing on cutting-edge contemporary scholarship in management, policy, sociology and history. The book explores key themes in Latin American sport, including the role of public institutions; the relationship between...