Aspects influencing the commitment of endurance athletes: a tourism perspective

Myburgh, Esmarie; Kruger, Martinette; Saayman, Melville

doi:10.1080/14775085.2018.1472032

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“…Hence, the more time invested in a specific activity and the better the lifestyle the activity yields, the more commitment to scuba diving is positively impacted. This result is in line with the Myburgh et al (2018) study.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Recreational scuba diving as a special form of tourism: lessons from Taiwan

Dai

Huang

Chen

et al. 2021

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Purpose Recreational scuba diving is one of the fastest growing tourism industries around the world and has become a popular activity in Taiwan. Few studies focus on enduring involvement with a high risk or difficult activity specialization, so this study aims to explore the causal relationship between enduring involvement and specialization and seeks to explain sustained involvement in scuba diving activity as a recreation specialization. Design/methodology/approach This research selects four diving sites in Taiwan as survey locations, specifically Yeliou, Longdong, Kenting and Green Island. The questionnaire consists of three sections, including demographic information, enduring involvement and specialization. By analyzing the data collected from 810 scuba divers in Taiwan, structural equation modeling is used to examine the causal relationships among the variables. Findings The primary findings of this study are as follows: attraction positively affects divers’ commitment and lifestyle through joy, relaxation and sharing diving experiences; the results indicate that self-expression is associated with past experience of participating in scuba diving activity; and centrality indicates that participants’ daily life and recreation are related to each other and become central to their life. Results show that most theoretical hypotheses are supported, but there is no significant evidence of attraction impacting past experience or self-expression influencing commitment and lifestyle. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to examine the causal influence of enduring involvement and specialization in the scuba diving context. The findings provide a solid theoretical basis for the study of sustained involvement motivation and behavior on specialization. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Recreational scuba diving as a special form of tourism: lessons from Taiwan

Dai

Huang

Chen

et al. 2021

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“…These results did not confirm the conclusions of other researchers who found that social aspects were an important part of the event experience, and so there remains a question of the relative importance of socializing, or communitas, in different types of sport events and how this might affect motives and quality evaluations. Myburgh, Kruger, and Saayman (2018) studied endurance athletes through the lens of sport commitment and concluded that their results were consistent with involvement theory.…”

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confidence: 75%

Specialization versus diversification in the event portfolios of amateur athletes

Andersson

Getz

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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This study explores the personal event portfolios of amateur athletes, differentiating between those who pursue a specialized career within one sport and those who diversify within multiple sports. The impetus for this paper was the observation made in previously published research that many sport-event tourists participate in multiple sports. The twin objectives of the study are to better understand highly involved participants and to draw implications that could contribute to the events' and the country's competitiveness in sport event tourism. The study also addresses the question of whether or not these portfolio choices emerge as involvement increasesin other words, do highly involved amateur athletes tend to specialize in one sport, as suggest by recreation specialization theory? A total of 6691 participants were surveyed online in five events (cross-country run, Nordic ski, halfmarathon run, open-water swim, and road cycling), out of which 2329 were identified as pursuing a portfolio strategy. The major contributions of this paper include identification of a large number of significant differences between "specialized" and "diversified" portfolios. Planning and marketing implications that can potentially enhance the attractiveness of individual and collectively marketed events are also discussed. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…The internet and social networks are widely used to distribute information [56] and increase access to customers [57]. In addition, TV and social media are platforms that event organizers, competitors, and teams use to engage with their fans [58].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since the environment of the venue should be safe for both tourists and residents, preventive measures and preparation for emergencies should be implemeted [44,[73][74][75]. The preparation involves stakeholders, such as the police and fire fighters, preparing for incidents, and healthcare personnel preparing to administer first aid [56].…”

Section: Safety and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Logistics of materials and merchandises, including receipt and delivery, route planning, custom clearance, and other related activities, have been little researched in sport [79], while they are crucial to a business and its model [56]. Transportation to a specific event may involve using various modes of transport such as a car, either by driving or carpooling, or a plane to reach the destination [52].…”

Section: Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A New Paradigm of a Sustainability-Balanced Scorecard Model for Sport Tourism

2023

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An integration between the principles of supply chain management in sport tourism and a sustainability-balanced scorecard leads to the development of guidance and assessment criteria for a city to be a sustainable sport tourism destination. This paper aims to present a sport tourism sustainability management model (STSM) for the development of assessment indices when selecting a city to be developed as a sport tourism city. The model consists of five perspectives, namely the financial perspective, customer perspective, internal process perspective, learning and growth perspective, and sustainability perspective. By using the Delphi technique to obtain a consensus from experts, university lecturers, independent organizations/associations, and business entities in relation to sport tourism management, the researchers define elements to assess complex perspectives for the sustainable development of sport tourism. The results show that there are five perspectives and eighteen elements in relation to the sustainable development of sport tourism. All perspectives and elements have a high consensus, as measured by Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance (W), of 0.488. To validate the model, the researchers examined the correlation among the five perspectives using a structural equation model and found that both the absolute fit and the incremental fit are satisfactory. As the model aligns and explains empirical data, it can support decision making for management teams, be used to effectively and efficiently draft a strategy for sustainable development in sport tourism, and improve the livelihoods of residents.

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Aspects influencing the commitment of endurance athletes: a tourism perspective

Cited by 12 publications

References 77 publications

Recreational scuba diving as a special form of tourism: lessons from Taiwan

Recreational scuba diving as a special form of tourism: lessons from Taiwan

Specialization versus diversification in the event portfolios of amateur athletes

A New Paradigm of a Sustainability-Balanced Scorecard Model for Sport Tourism

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