According to the data collected, a total of 75 veterinarians (with the exception of Veterinarian Faculty staff) practised 22 different sporting disciplines. The most prevalent sporting disciplines were soccer, played by 20 veterinarians, handball played by nine veterinarians, athletics and table ...

The structure and organization of sports at the local level is certainly one of numerous factors that can affect development of sports to a greater or lesser degree. The aim of this research is to determine the correlation between financial investments of public funds of the largest Croatian cities ...

With regard to management, operation and maintenance in technological, and thus in the organizational sense, sports facilities are becoming increasingly demanding. Specialist knowledge on this subject is scarcely present in our community and those who take are in charge of sports buildings reach...

As one of the selective forms of tourism, sport tourism has an exceptional potential for the development of tourist destinations, especially those with a rural character. Although often faced with multiple problems in terms of low employment and depopulation, rural destinations usually have very...

This paper examines sports, cultural, historical, and urban geography to analyse hodonyms (names of streets and squares) and ergonyms (names of hospitality establishments) located in the proximity of sports centres. The research examines whether there is a link between the hodonyms and ergonyms...

Tourism and sport are close to each other and connected. While through the history sport was associated with tourism only with journeys to various sports events, in modern society sport has become an important content during the stay of tourists in which they are active participants in various and ...

Artistic gymnastics is a highly demanding sport that requires a high level of gymnast's physical efficiency. However, as in other sports, one of the limiting factors in achieving the top-level results is also the athlete's body height and body weight, while for planning sport form very important...

Global competition amongst cities has grown and branding has lately become an important part of cities' strategies. The aim of this paper is to study the brand stakeholders' perceptions of the sport city brand of a mid-sized city, Jyväskylä, in Finland. The authors conducted in-depth interviews...

Sport as an instrument in politics and thus in diplomacy has been used since the earliest days and the first states in the history of mankind. Its significance had such influence that in ancient Greece due to The Olympic Games the wars between the states were ceased at that time. Sports diplomacy...

The Republic of Croatia is faced with serious problems of lack of sports infrastructure which is the basic foundation for the development of sport and thus the health of the nation. When speaking about school sport, one third of elementary schools and two quarters of secondary schools have no...