The interest in physical activity and vacations has created a growth in the tourism industry and has greatly modified strategies within the industry. Sport tourism is expanding and many forms of consumption exist within this area. The object of this study is to propose a new framework for analysing sport tourism consumption. This framework illustrates that consumer choices depend upon vacation destinations and sport services offered in relation to the experiences that vacationers are seeking. The originality of this analysis is that it integrates spatial and social dimensions stemming from environmental psychology, ethnology and sociology.

The object of this investigation was to clarify certain mechanisms of identity categorizationby studying, from a sociohistorical and psychological perspective, two groups of soccer fans from the city of Marseille. Through this pluralistic social approach, a more precise differentiation of the types of identity construction for both groups was able to be determined. Each type is the product of identity crossbreeding, dependant on specific social, historical and psychological factors. The "Commando Ultra" ("CU") group develops a conservative attitude in that its national culture becomes a reference criterion for ethnocentric fans. The fan group, "South Winners" ("SW") develops asyncretistic attitude for regional fans who defend the multicultural identity of Marseille.