A press release from Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Nachhaltige TourismusEntwicklung (DANTE), a Pan-European network of organizations with an interest in sustainable issues, explains why the tourist industry should be given the red card because of its lack of progress in developing sustainable...

New research from the UK Office of National Statistics has estimated that the average UK household now spends the equivalent of £50.60 a week on leisure related services, reports ananova.com. In 2001, leisure expenditure accounted for more of the average household expenditure than any other area of...

New data from Deloitte & Touche shows that hoteliers in the gateway cities of Seoul and Tokyo have gained a competitive advantage over their competitors in the Asia Pacific region which is directly attributable to playing host to the 2002 Soccer World Cup, reports hospitality.net.

A press release from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) welcomes the news that 2004 has been proclaimed

The role played by physical training and sport within the vocational training system of the Lengingrad region, USSR, is outlined. It is said that 30% of the funds provided by the state for the development of the material and technological facilities of vocational schools are spent on organizing...

This book considers the place of television in modern popular culture. Divided into twelve chapters, it traces the development of the television medium, its use of advertising, and television's re-creation of images of ethnic groups, women, sport and crime. The political uses of the television...

From an international football perspective football in Norway may be considered as a 'different sort of country'. This essay concerns itself with the tension between the interest in football in Norway and the geographical and topographical preconditions for the sport. This is discussed in three...

Contemporarily Australian Indigenous peoples are portrayed by white Australians according to deficit understandings. As well as being inaccurate, this depiction, as part of a long-term civilising process, is an expression of 'fantasy-laden thinking' [Mennell, S., & Goudsblom, J. (1998)....

New research examines why people break the rules

There is both growing concern about ethical standards in sport and also rapid expansion in the number of local and national schemes designed to encourage youth sports development. Child abuse in youth sport has become a 'moral panic' in British society but there is evidence of a child protection...