Tourism and Cricket: Travels to the Boundary

Published by Channel View Publications 2014

Tourism and Cricket

Travels to the Boundary

Edited by: Tom Baum and Richard Butler

Volume 41 in the series Tourism and Cultural Change

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845414542

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About this book

This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.

Author / Editor information

Baum Tom :

Tom Baum is Programme Director, Hong Kong University SPACE programmes in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Strathclyde. His research agenda includes: people and work in low skills service work, with a particular focus on the international hospitality and tourism sector as well as human resource development and skills planning and formation, education and training, at a macro (national) and company level.

Butler Richard :

Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at Strathclyde University. A geographer, he has taught in Canada, the UK, Holland and Italy. He has published over twenty book and a hundred papers on tourism. A past president of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, he was UNWTO Ulysses Laureate 2016.

Tom Baum is Programme Director, Hong Kong University SPACE programmes in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Strathclyde. His research agenda includes: people and work in low skills service work, with a particular focus on the international hospitality and tourism sector as well as human resource development and skills planning and formation, education and training, at a macro (national) and company level.

Richard Butler is a geographer (Nottingham and Glasgow Universities), and taught for thirty years at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) and then at the University of Surrey. He has published eighteen books on tourism and over a hundred journal articles and chapters. His main areas of research are tourism destination development, and the sustainability of tourism. He is a former President of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies.

Reviews

From Witney Scrotum to the Gabba and from homesickness to nostalgia – a few of the words which frame this exciting book. It takes its readers on travels in time and space, exploring the Barmy Army to cricket in Indonesia. Applying ethnographic and sociological methods Tourism and Cricket is a 'must read' for fans and students of sport, cricket and tourism.

Offering perspectives on the links between an international sport and tourism mobilities, the contributors to this book fully engage the reader, combining insightful analyses with typical cricketing humour and irreverence. An excellent read for anyone wishing to appreciate the interdependence of tourism and sport participation.

This excellent book presents the reader with a fascinating collection of essays which have been expertly integrated by the craft of Baum and Butler's editorship. They deliver a volume that pushes the boundaries in exploring the diverse manifestations of tourism arising from unique cultural creations of the sport of cricket. This is a must-read for those with interests in the intersections of sport, history, culture, identity and tourism.

Clive N. Hickson, University of Alberta, Canada:

The perspectives on these changes of the game are insightful and intriguing, making Tourism and Cricket: Travels to the Boundary an engaging and enjoyable read. Although scholarly in nature, the book presents an insightful variety of perspectives that engages and would appeal to a wide array of readers. Cricket fanatics would find the different perspectives enlightening and general sports readers would likely find the book to be a most enjoyable read. However, Tourism and Cricket: Travels to the Boundary would also be of interest to sports researchers and would serve as an excellent resource for both undergraduate and graduate level courses that attend to sport, tourism, and leisure.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Preface Tom Baum Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Part 1: The Development of Patterns
1. The Changing Boundaries and Geography of Cricket Richard Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Looking for Witney Scrotum? Cricket, Tourism and Images of England Brian Wheeller and Robert Maitland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Part 2: The Homes of Cricket
3. Rupertswood and Sunbury: Commemorating Cricket and the Birthplace of ‘the Ashes’ Leanne White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4. Nostalgia at the Boundary: A Study at Lord’s Cricket Ground Denise Cardwell and Nazia Ali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
5. Development of the Rose Bowl as a Venue for Cricket and Other Events Joanne Parrett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
6. Cricket: Biology and Bali Steve Noakes and Alan Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Part 3: The True Costs
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
7. Cricketers as Tourists; Analyses of Culture Shock, Travel Motivation and Learning Philip L. Pearce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
8. Sport Tourism as a Means of Reconciliation? The Case of India–Pakistan Cricket John Beech, Andrew Rigby, Ian Talbot and Shinder Thandi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
9. On the March with the Barmy Army Paul Emery, Warwick Frost and Anthony Kerr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
10. An Ethnographic View from the Boundary: India vs England, The Fourth Test, Nagpur, December 2012 Tom Baum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
11. Recollections of a Coarse Cricketer: Ninety Nine Percent Boredom, One Percent Terror Richard Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Stumps Richard Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: sport tourism; spectator participation; tourist behaviour; tourism; cricket; sport; fan identity

eBook

Published: August 1, 2014
ISBN: 9781845414542