Sport Spectatorship and Health Benefits: A Case of a Japanese Professional Golf Tournament.

ABSTRACT: It has been well-argued that professional sport or mega sport events could serve as a catalyst for sport participation behaviors through direct and indirect trickle-down effects. However, there is limited research exploring the impact of spectator services during sport events on personal and collective well-being. Elaborating on the social-ecological model and the concept of market demand, this study attempted to fill the gap in the literature by measuring core product (player attraction, event attractiveness, and course characteristics) and peripheral spectator services (event services, event information, event amenity, and parking and transportation) of a professional golf tournament hosted in Japan and examining how these services factors would influence spectators' length of stay at a

SUBMITTER: Watanabe Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396585 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature