Juan Luis Paramio-Salcines

The academic and professional study of teaching methodologies in Sport and Exercise Science undergraduate and postgraduate degrees has evolved significantly over recent years, largely driven by the emergence of student-centred approaches, digital technologies, – especially influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic – and the increasing demand for evidence-based and inclusive pedagogy. This chapter presents a comprehensive analysis of the historical development, status, challenges, and opportunities associated with both traditional and contemporary teaching methodologies, strategies, and contents within Sport and Exercise Science programmes. It explores various challenges and opportunities presented by different pedagogical approaches and reviews best practices for teaching and educational strategies. The chapter concludes with a scientific mapping of the existing literature on teaching methodologies, specifically within Physical Education as a key and widely integrated branch of Sport and Exercise Science. This mapping offers valuable insights for current students and future educators and practitioners engaged in this dynamic field.

City marathons have evolved and grown exponentially in type and popularity, in their managerial complexity, and in terms of their financial impact on their host cities and the attraction of corporate sponsors. Most of the research on city marathons has focused on evaluating their broad economic, urban, tourist, social, sporting, and symbolic effects on host cities. However, less attention has been paid to analyzing key strategic decisions that could account for the evolution and growth of specific marathons and their influences on their management and success. This article, which addresses the cases of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and the Marathon Valencia Trinidad Alfonso, examines those key strategic decisions that have been taken from their inaugural first editions to present and how effective they have been as regards the management and success of both races. Results show that the international success of both events –in terms of sporting participation, performance, and economic impact– is closely related to critical key decisions taken to improve the design and management of the event; the synergies between the political, business and sporting spheres that the organizational leadership of both races has favored their implementation and, as a consequence, the support received from sponsors. This factor has not only provided both races with financial stability, but it has also contributed to improving how both marathons are managed.

City marathons have evolved and grown exponentially in type and popularity, managerial complexity, for their financial impact on their host cities and for the attraction of corporate sponsors. Much research has focused on evaluating the broad economic, urban, tourist, social, sporting, and symbolic effects of city marathons on host cities. Research have not examined the importance of the contribution of sponsors to the financial stability and its implications to the overall management and further success of marathons. This article focuses on the cases of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and the Marathon Valencia Trinidad Alfonso and examines how effective has been the contribution of their sponsors to the financial stability and its implications for the management and success of both races over time. Results show that the international success of both events –in terms of sporting participation, performance and economic impact– is closely related to the design and management of the event; the synergies between the political, business and sporting spheres that the organizational leadership of the event has made it possible to implement and, as a consequence, the support received from sponsors, which has not only provided both races with financial stability, but also has contributed to improve the management of the race.

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to synthesise existing literature on sports stadia, spectators with disabilities (SwD) and accessibility to identify themes and to highlight the gaps in the literature. This review subsequently develops two propositions that will enable research in this emerging area to further develop.Design/methodology/approach: The research was guided by two research questions: First, what does the peer reviewed evidence tell us about SwD and the accessibility of sporting stadia?; Second, how can this information be used to develop a Stadium Accessibility Scale (SAS)? The authors conducted a rapid review of the literature across three databases that identified 34 papers for synthesis.Findings: The synthesis revealed three research themes: a focus on legislative compliance, the need to enhance resources (both physical and human) and research that focusses on moving beyond the stadium experience. The latter can be subdivided into two streams – studies that look at accessibility as a social legacy of major events and studies that seek to understand the whole journey that SwD's must make to attend sport events.Research limitations/implications: The study makes two key recommendations. The first is to encourage further research aligned to the HOPES framework (Paramio-Salcines et al., 2016) that explicitly recognises the importance of understanding the broader approach to the customer experience. The second is the need for the development and validation of a reliable SAS.Originality/value: Greater accessibility provides a foundation for inclusive environments in sport. The findings are relevant for all stakeholders in sport as universal accessibility benefits more than people with disabilities.

Drawing on a conceptual lens informed by ableism and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA), the purpose of this paper is to discover how managers within European National Football Associations (NAs...

The purpose of this study is to examine how effective the international promotion of a sport event is on changing the destination image prior to the event if the sport event lacks global popularity. The authors conducted a quasi-experimental posttest research design, in which they used promotional information of a Tour de France stage to manipulate the destination image nonvisitors (N = 3,505) from nine different nations have of the hosting city, 5 months prior to the actual event. Results show that treating the international market as a homogeneous entity might be deceptive, as the effect of the event was different from nation to nation, pending on the popularity of the event or sport in the specific nation, and whether the nation itself offered similar events.

Little attention has been focused on the analysis of the interrelation between disability and elite disability sport from the human rights perspective as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) demands of those countries that ratified this global regulation. More than a decade since its promulgation in December 2006, the United Nations itself and a plethora of authors recognises that disability in general and disability sport by extension has not yet been seen as a human rights issue in many countries, principally in developing countries. This paper is divided into four main parts. First, academic literature in relation to disability, human rights policy and sport at elite level is explored. Second, it examines the active role of the International Paralympic Committee, regarded as a major advocate for the rights of the sport promotion of athletes with disabilities, to implement the Convention by the organisation of sports events for Paralympic athletes worldwide at all levels of the sport development continuum. Third, it explains the methods and data collection followed in the study and the following section presents results of the analysis. Finally, it draws an international scenario that might be valuable in informing academics, institutions and professionals to promote elite disability sport from the human rights perspective.

This chapter will provide an overview of how the planning and management of the stadium can impact on the customer experience. The task of ensuring that the customer’s experience within the ‘sportscape’ (Wakefield, Blodgett and Sloan, 1996) is memorable is one strategy for increasing stadium attendance and customer satisfaction. In the business of stadium management, many experiential aspects are influenced by aesthetics, space and accessibility within the built environment. The increasing professionalisation of sport has seen stadium developments begin to reflect the requirements of the sport business. Contemporary stadia are more than just sporting facilities and their services; sporting and non-sporting organisations now have to cater for more than one type of customer. These stadia can also assist in the acquisition of major events to cities and regions. For instance, the staging of the Olympic Games has led to many host cities building or redeveloping their stadium in order to meet event requirements. These requirements are one of a number of factors that have led to a proliferation of stadium development in many countries. This chapter will examine strategic management considerations for providing optimal customer experiences to ensure long-term benefit to the sport business.

Ciudades de todo tipo en la actual jerarquía urbana se afanan por adquirir una nueva identidad. En ese proceso de reinvención urbana, el turismo de eventos deportivos ha venido desarrollando una gran capacidad para generar diferentes impactos ‘tangibles’ e ‘intangibles’, como se argumenta en este artículo con el caso de la ciudad holandesa de Utrecht y la organización del Grand Depart Tour de Francia 2015 (GDTF). Si bien se ha analizado de manera amplia el uso estratégico del Tour de Francia por parte de numerosas ciudades en la última década desde la perspectiva de la oferta, este estudio exploratorio con un carácter marcadamente internacional que incluye nueve países, uno de los cuales es España, examina el GDTF 2015 desde la perspectiva de la demanda. En particular, estudia los factores clave que pueden facilitar o condicionar el deseo de viajar, previamente al propio evento, de ciudadanos españoles a Utrecht, para seguir dicho evento. Con el fin de valorar el grado de conocimiento de los principales atractivos de la ciudad, así como las principales motivaciones de estos ciudadanos españoles a la hora de viajar a Utrecht in situ, se han utilizado encuestas, un grupo de discusión y una revisión documental. El artículo concluye con los principales resultados que se derivan de las percepciones de los ciudadanos españoles de Utrecht y su relación con el GDTF 2015, además de las implicaciones prácticas de este caso.