Sport Tourism, Events and Sustainable Development Goals

Anukrati Sharma is Head & Associate Professor of the Department of Commerce and Management at the University of Kota (a state government university) in Kota, Rajasthan, India.Miha Lesjak is Associate Professor at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies, Turistica.Dušan Borovčanin is the CEO of EXPO 2027 Belgrade and the Vice Dean at the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Singidunum University in Belgrade and visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg, EM Business School.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Sports tourism and Sustainable Development Goals: foundations and pathwaysParag Shukla, Pankaj Kumar Tripathy, and Jahanvi Bansal 2 What lies in the state of art of sports and SDGs? Analysing past, present, and future for sustainabilityManpreet Arora and Monika Chandel 3 "Panem et circenses": investigating plate waste at major sport eventsEmil Juvan and Miha Lesjak 4 Sport events and travel carbon footprint: seeking an optimal balance?Hrvoje Grofelnik, Marko Perić, and Nicholas Wise 5 Developing transnational cycling destinations with the help of EU funds: a truly sustainable approach?Hristo Andreev and Miha Bratec 6 The use of football stadia as venues for meetings and conferences: the case of the UKRob Davidson and Andrew Kirby7 Designing for the beautiful game: soccer stadia for a sustainable futureTerry Stevens 8 Sports tourism and event legacy: building inclusive, safe, and resilient cities and communitiesDušan Borovcanin 9 Young adults’ views of sustainable ski destination development: insights from cluster analysisKir Kuščer, Sašo Sever, and Daša Farčnik10 Stakeholder sentiment of SDGs of Beijing Olympics 2020 Lori Pennington-Gray, Seonjin Lee, and Khalid Ballouli11 Fostering peaceful and respectful societies with sports tourism and eventsMiroslav KnezevicIndex