‘The Politics of Sports Tourism in Northern Ireland’

Adrian Devine; Frances Devine

doi:10.1080/14775080410001732550

‘The Politics of Sports Tourism in Northern Ireland’

Adrian Devine, Frances Devine

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Abstract

Due to political division within Northern Ireland spectator sports, particularly Gaelic games, have been a contentious issue and as result have not been developed as a tourism product. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how politics can impinge on policies relating to sport, tourism and consequently sports tourism. The first section deals with the political situation in Northern Ireland and how it has affected local tourism and sport. The second section analyses the tourism potential of local sports now that the country has entered a new era of peace. The third and final section of the paper deals specifically with Gaelic games and recommends how Northern Ireland’s tourism industry could capitalise on a sport which is unique to the island of Ireland.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	171-182
Journal	Journal of Sports Tourism
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14775080410001732550
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Mar 2004

Bibliographical note

Reference text: Bairner, A. (2000) After the war? Soccer, masculinity and violence in Northern Ireland, in: A.
Messner & D. Sabo (Eds), Masculinities, Gender Relations and Sport pp. 176–194 (San
Diego, CA: Sage).
Bairner, A. (2003) Studies an Irish Quarterly Review. Available at http://www.jesuit.ie/studies/articles
(accessed 2 November).
Baum, T. (1995) Ireland – the peace dividend. Insights, July, p. 9–14.
BBC Northern Ireland (2003) Viewing Figures Report, 28 September.
Bourdieu, P. (1978) Sport and social class, Social Science Information, 18(6), pp. 820–833.
Boyd, S.W. (2000) ‘Heritage’ tourism in Northern Ireland: opportunity under peace, Current
Issues in Tourism, 3(2), pp. 150–174.
British Tourism Authority (2003). Tourism Intelligence Quarterly, 23(4), pp. 65–70.
GAA-Museum, General-Information (2003). Available at http://www.gaa.ie/museum.mission/
main.htm (accessed 15 October).
Getz, D. (1997) Trends and issues in sport event tourism, Tourism Recreation Research, 22(2),
pp.61–62.
Glyptis, S.A. (1982) Sport and Tourism in Western Europe (London: British Travel Education
Trust).
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182 A. Devine & F. Divine
Green, B. C. (2001) Leveraging subculture and identity to promote sport events, Sport
Management Review, 4(1), pp. 1–19.
Hargreaves, J. (1982) Sport, culture and ideology, in: J. Hargreaves (Ed.) Sport, Culture and
Ideology (London: Routledge).
IIHF News Letter (2003) Available at http://www.iihf.com/news/iihfpr5402.htm (accessed 29
September).
Jackson, G. & Glyptis, S.A. (1992) Sport and Tourism: A Review of the Literature. Report to
the Sports Council (Loughborough: Recreation Management Group), 2–3 April.
Leslie, D. (1999) Terrorism and tourism: The Northern Ireland situation–A look behind the
veil of certainty, Journal of Travel Research, 38, pp. 37–40.
Loverseed, H. (2001) Sports tourism in North America, Travel & Tourism Analyst, 3,
pp. 25–42.
MacCannell, D. (1976) The Tourist (London: Macmillan).
McGinley, M. Kremer, J., Trew, K. & Olge, S. (1998) Socio-cultural identity and attitudes to
sport in Northern Ireland, Irish Journal of Psychology, 19(4), pp. 464–471.
Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) (1999) Tourism Marketing Plan 1999–2000.
Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) (2001) Tourism Facts: 2001.
Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) (2002) Annual Report: 2001–2002.
O’Neill, M. & Fitz, F. (1996) Northern Ireland tourism: what chance now? Tourism Management,
17(3), pp. 161–163.
Reeves, M. R. (2000) Evidencing the sport–tourism interrelationship. Paper presented at Sports
Conference, Loughborough University, 20 August.
Standeven, J. & De Knop, P. (1999) Sport Tourism (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics).
Sugden, J. (1995) Sport, community relations and community conflict in Northern Ireland, in:
Seamus Dunn (ed.) Facets of the Conflict in Northern Ireland pp. 199–214 (London:
McMillan Press).
Sugden, J. & Harvie, S. (1995) Sport and community relations in Northern Ireland. Report to
the Centre for the Study of Conflict, Belfast, 6 January.
Swarbrooke, J., Beard, C., Leckie, S. & Pomfret, G. (2003) Adventure Tourism: The New
Frontier (Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann).
Train, P. (1994) Tourism and economic impacts of staging a special event: the Europa Cup,
Birmingham. MSc thesis, Loughborough University.
Ulster Council GAA (2003) Strategic Plan 2003–2006.
Wall, G. (1996) Terrorism and tourism: an overview and an Irish example, in: A. Pizam & Y.
Mansfeld (Eds) Tourism, Crime and International Security Issues, pp. 143–158
(Chichester: Wiley and Sons).
Weed, M. & Bull, C. (2004) Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers (Oxford:
Butterworth-Heinemann).
Wilson, D. (1993) Tourism, public policy and the image of Northern Ireland since the troubles,
in: B O’ Connor & M. Cronin (Eds) Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis, pp. 138–161
(Cork: Cork University Press).
Wilson, M., Smyth, S., Murray, A. & Black, M. (1997) The future of the Northern Ireland
accommodation sector, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management,
9(1), pp. 25–30.

Keywords

GAA
Terrorism
Contentious
Peace
Differentiation and Unique

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‘The Politics of Sports Tourism in Northern Ireland’

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