A Multidisciplinary Approach To Sport Tourism Education In A Digital Era

Ourania Vrondou; Vicky C Katsoni

doi:10.33776/et.v7i2.3144

Ourania Vrondou Assistant Professor Department of Sport Management University of Peloponnese, Orthias Artemidos & Plataion, Sparta, Greece
Vicky C Katsoni TEI of Athens http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4808-9564

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33776/et.v7i2.3144

Keywords:

Sport tourism education, tourism management curriculum, ICTs

Abstract

Sport tourism has enjoyed a plethora of definitional and theoretical perspectives over the last three decades proposing a dynamic alternative to mass tourism with specific structural features and modus operandi. However, studies examining or suggesting the basic body of knowledge that would satisfy the educational needs of participants in this complex tourism form are lacking. The present study aims to minor the gap of theoretical support and direction for tourism academics and sport and tourism managers through an analysis of the involved conceptual fields. Hopefully, the result will offer a vision on the further development of sport tourism education to meet the needs of one of the most promising leisure forms. Following an analysis of the major challenges sport tourism education is facing, the article proposes the basic dimensions of a conceptual framework on which to base development of a sport tourism management curriculum.

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Author Biographies

Ourania Vrondou, Assistant Professor Department of Sport Management University of Peloponnese, Orthias Artemidos & Plataion, Sparta, Greece

Assistant Professor
Department of Sport Management University of Peloponnese,
Orthias Artemidos & Plataion, Sparta, Greece

Vicky C Katsoni, TEI of Athens

Dr. Vicky Katsoni is a full Associate Professor at the Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece and she is also teaching at the Greek Open University at the MSc program of Tourism Management, as well as in the e-Tourism Module in the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, Distant Learning Programs. She holds a PhD in Tourism Marketing Management and ICT Applications in Tourism from the Panteion University, Department of Public Administration, Greece, an MBA from the University of Keele, School of Management and Economics, England, a BA (Hons) in Economics from the Law School, Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Economics and a BSc in Tourism Management from the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) in Thessaloniki, Faculty of Business Management, Greece. She has published 7 books on tourism, chapters in edited volumes, and numerous papers on highly academic journals. She is the President of the nonprofit “International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism” and a member of the Editorial Board of many journals in tourism and marketing. Her research interests include tourism marketing, tourism destination strategies and DMOs, tourism distribution channels, digital tourism, and tourism consumer behavior and has participated in several European and National research projects.