Sport Industry Development during Social Transition: Future Perspectives, Challenges, Concepts and Necessities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2023) | Viewed by 3118
Special Issue Editors
Interests: anthropology of sport; social issues in sport; sport management; public health; sport sciences
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sports; recreation; sport sociology; sport management
Interests: anthropology of sport; public health; sport sciences
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sport is a major contributor to social and economic development. The role of sport is recognized by local and national authorities in most of countries worldwide. The Political Declaration of the 2030 Agenda highlighted “the contribution sports make to the empowerment of women and of young people, individuals and communities, as well as to health, education and social inclusion objectives.” The industry in which people, activities, businesses, and organizations are involved in producing, facilitating, promoting, or organizing any activity, experience, or business enterprise focused on sports creates the market in which the businesses or products offered to their buyers are sports-related and may be goods, services, people, places, or ideas. According to the Eurostat yearbook 2019, the sports industry has grown exponentially over the last two decades when compared to other industries, representing the 6th largest global growth at the industrial level. The future development seemed to be guaranteed; however, since 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has spread to almost all countries of the world, upending all areas of life and making no exception for sports. Social and physical distancing measures, as well as lockdowns of businesses, schools and overall social life, which have become commonplace to curtail the spread of the disease, have disrupted many regular aspects of life. The impact of COVID-19 on society was unexpected, including its impacts on activities within the sports industry, and this Special Issue aims to investigate pre-pandemic and pandemic issues to anticipate solutions to mitigate the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through a wide range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, and to promote the future perspectives, challenges, new concepts and necessities within sport industry to solve eventual future uncertainty.
This Special Issue aims to develop knowledge and an understanding of future perspectives, challenges, new concepts and necessities within the sport industry to help students, academics and practitioner professors who are interested in knowing more about the new concepts in the sport industry in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era. It thus aims to help identify possible solutions and strategies that provide a transition from the current situation to one that promises secure sustainability of the sport industry in the long term. Specifically, this Special Issue calls for research related, but not limited, to the following questions: What impact is the current social transition having on the sport industry? How will the current social transition affect sport business exchange and extensive networking in the long term?
Dr. Stevo Popovic
Dr. Hanifi Uzum
Dr. Juel Jarani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sport
- sport industry
- social transition
- development
- sustainability
