The merging of tourism, leisure and sports is a reflection of profound social and cultural changes that have occurred in western societies. In France, the introduction of the 40-hour working week in 1936 increased the leisure time available to all social classes. The effects of World War Two and...

This article provides an analysis of the budget structure of amateur sports clubs, and identifies some variables explaining the degree of income diversification of these clubs. The method is applied at a European level, and the econometric analysis concerns more than 1500 amateur sports clubs...

The report of the National Academy of Medicine named "Sport and Health" underlines the medical, social and educational dimensions of sporting activities. Various kinds of sporting practices are described: they concern the approximately 7,000 high level athletes, around 8,000 professional (licensed) ...

This collection of articles on the development of sports museums worldwide aims to promote awareness of the importance of sporting heritage, and also to promote the idea of sports museums as potentially important tourist attractions. Sports museums may seem to be a relatively new concept, but ...

While most impact studies focus on competitive sports events, just a few pay attention to municipal sports events. Nevertheless, politicians use them to attain the purpose of a public policy: either to improve a situation, or to fill a gap. This is the case of 'Charléty sur Neige,' which aims to...

The earliest research on sporting tourism dates from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sporting tourism covers three main areas, namely: (1) the supply of tourism services in association with major sporting events (e.g. the Olympic Games, world championships, or the World Cup); (2) participation...

This paper aims to contribute to the sociology of voluntary work in an area of sports dominated by volunteers (receiving only a small allowance): training in youth soccer clubs. What motivations drive the commitment of these voluntary soccer coaches? What resources do they mobilize to carry out...

To accommodate sporting events of international significance, the city of Nice has built a large stadium, the Allianz Riviera. However, since decentralization, the public sector can no longer contribute, by itself, to the budgets dedicated to sports facilities. In light of changing patterns of...

Interpretations of the relationships between metropolization and sport policies are reduced, when it comes to sporting events, to correlations between the size of cities and the success of their professional sports clubs or how many people attend these events. However, employing an...

In 1986, a surgeon who, as an amateur boxer himself, was concerned with boxers' health, approached a pioneering Parisian neuroimaging unit. Thus began a study in close cooperation with the French Boxing Federation, spanning 25 years. In a first series of 52 volunteer boxers (13 amateurs and 39...