The impact of the COVID-19 crisis and its related measures on how people practice and experience leisure continues to be significant. In the current study, a survey measuring sport participation during the third week of the first lockdown, that started on the 18th of March 2020 and has been...

The local and the everyday provide a base resource for an individual to draw upon selectively in the reflexive construction of their leisure lifestyles. Through processes of tourism, however, these everyday spaces can become transformed into tourist products such as through the staging of major ...

Three studies investigated the relationship between the achievement motive and sport participation. It was expected that both the implicit and the explicit achievement motives are positively associated with how frequently people engage in sport activities. The implicit achievement motive was...

The development of rugby league in Liverpool has been a constant struggle, not only against the prevailing popularity of soccer, but other sports in the city such as baseball, athletics and greyhound racing. Nevertheless, prior to the outbreak of World War Two rugby league looked to be gaining...

Rationale: This article is concerned with the impact that hosting a sport mega-event has on regional development. Most academic literature on event-led development mainly deals with major international contests held in metropolitan areas. Unlike them, this research looks at a mega sporting event...

The role and place of traditional sports and physical activities, such as football, athletics and gymnastics, are declining in Germany in the leisure lifestyles of children and young people. They are being increasingly pushed aside in favour of American sports, including American football, ...

The improvement of the system of physical culture and recreation and sports leisure is considered as one of the priority directions of the state social policy. At the state level, an understanding of physical education and sports importance for ensuring the nation health and improving the quality...

Methods whereby access to facilities can be captured in order to support national policies geared towards promoting sports participation and help plan the provision of local facilities are urgently needed. Objective measures derived from the use of Geographical Information Systems can be used to...

Sports tourism has received growing attention in academic research over the past two decades but greater understanding of the consumer is needed, particularly the factors which shape the inclusion of sport as part of a leisure trip. This paper provides, through a focus on the sport of golf,...

Among those who play tennis, there is a subculture that spends a lot of effort on this sport. This article focuses on revealing the effect of the sense of freedom perceived by the tennis players in this group on their life satisfaction. 293 athletes from different regions participated in the...