Tourism and Cricket

Travels to the Boundary

Edited by Prof. Tom Baum, Richard Butler

Publication date:

01 August 2014

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781845414535

This book is the first to focus on the relationship between tourism and cricket. The pattern of cricket as a sport and as a tourist attraction is highly dynamic. This volume examines how cricket as a participant and spectator sport generates diverse tourism to both major and peripheral locations. It looks at the ways in which cricket's extended duration (compared to other sports) creates a different dynamic in terms of visitor-host interaction. It also considers how following cricket as a tourist and a participant causes exposure to unique pressures and results in unique behaviour. The book will appeal to researchers, students and teachers in tourism, sport and leisure.

Tom Baum: Preface and Acknowledgements
Part 1
Introduction: Travels to the Boundary – The Development of Patterns
1. Richard Butler: Changing Boundaries and the Geography of Cricket
2. Brian Wheeller and Robert Maitland: Looking for Witney Scrotum? Cricket, Tourism and Images of England
Part 2
Introduction: Travels to the Boundary - The Homes of Cricket
3. Leanne White: Rupertswood and Sunbury: Commemorating Cricket and the Birthplace of ‘The Ashes’
4. Denise Cardwell and Nazia Ali: Nostalgia at the Boundary: A Study at Lord’s Cricket Ground
5. Joanne Parrett: Development of The Rose Bowl as a Venue for Cricket and other Events
6. Steve Noakes and Alan Wilson: Cricket: Biology and Bali
Part 3
Introduction: Travels to the Boundary – The True Costs
7. Philip L. Pearce: Cricketers as Tourists: Analyses of Culture Shock, Travel Motivation and Learning
8. John Beech, Andrew Rigby, Ian Talbot and Shinder Thandi: Sport Tourism as a Means of Reconciliation? The Case of India–Pakistan Cricket
9. Paul Emery, Warwick Frost and Anthony Kerr: On the March with the Barmy Army
10. Tom Baum: An Ethnographic View from the Boundary: India vs. England, the Fourth Test, Nagpur, December 2012
11. Richard Butler: Recollections of a Coarse Cricketer: Ninety Nine Percent Boredom, One Percent Terror
Richard Butler: Stumps

The perspectives on these changes of the game are insightful and intriguing, making Tourism and Cricket: Travels to the Boundary an engaging and enjoyable read. Although scholarly in nature, the book presents an insightful variety of perspectives that engages and would appeal to a wide array of readers. Cricket fanatics would find the different perspectives enlightening and general sports readers would likely find the book to be a most enjoyable read. However, Tourism and Cricket: Travels to the Boundary would also be of interest to sports researchers and would serve as an excellent resource for both undergraduate and graduate level courses that attend to sport, tourism, and leisure.