Winter sports tourism in the Alps remains competitive and challenges destinations to develop and offer new tourism products. Slope ski touring (SST) is an excellent example. In the Alps, this winter sport has been experiencing a tremendous boom. However, SST has been poorly examined in academia....

This study investigated whether athletic mental energy played a mediating role between sports courage and passion for skiing. The study developed an original theoretical model and employed Sobel's test to evaluate the model. The sample consisted of 226 professional skiers preparing for competitions ...

Members of the Romanian elites encouraged various leisure and sporting activities from the late nineteenth century but most notably from the turn of the twentieth century onwards and during the post-WWI period. Some even become sportsmen and sportswomen recognized both nationally and...

This case study assessed the differences in time on camera dedicated to men and women athletes at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. An analysis of the entirety of the programming on the the American broadcast television company NBC, including the prime-time broadcasts, the daytime programming, and...

There is a lack of reviews covering the topic of the parallel high prevalence of injuries in female winter sport elite athletes. We aimed to review the data on incidence and patterns of injuries in female athletes participating in official competitions of winter sports. We conducted a comprehensive ...

We investigate differences in perceived danger and recklessness judgements by experts (experienced skiers, N = 362) and laypeople (N = 2080) about participation in adventure sports across the same judgemental task using a third person perspective. We investigate the relationship between danger and...

The purpose of this descriptive cross-sectional study is to describe the amount and intensity of physical activity (PA) measured by accelerometry among adolescents participating in organized sports (SCP) and age-matched non-participating peers (NP). SCPs (332) and NPs (139) wore an accelerometer on ...

The purpose of this study was to qualitatively analyze and elucidate the proficiency experience of a short-term intensive learning process for beginning skiing university students based on their own reflective reports. The subjects of this study were 6 novice skiers who participated in a university ...

Climate change represents a serious challenge for winter tourism. Its economic and managerial impacts will differ between season periods due to the seasonality of snow availability and tourism demand. Therefore, the interaction of these two types of seasonality has to be modelled. With a novel...

Ski touring on groomed slopes is a relatively new outdoor sport that has steadily been gaining interest. So far, little scientific attention has been given to this outdoor activity. Thus, few questions have been asked about the motivation for practising this sport, and even fewer about whether the...