Getting back to the event: covid-19, attendance and perceived importance of protective measures

Authors

  • Marko Perić University of Rijeka, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Opatija
  • Nicholas Wise Arizona State University, School of Community Resources and Development, Phoenix, AZ
  • Reza Heydari Faculty of Sports Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad
  • Mohammad Keshtidar Faculty of Sports Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
  • Janez Mekinc University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož

Abstract

Current COVID-19 realities have led to event disruptions, and new policies on who can be in event venues mean event organisers must consider and implement new protective measures for the safety and security of both active and passive participants. This empirical study focuses on event consumers and issues related to their intention to attend future sporting events and their perception of how important they find some of the safety-related protective measures when attending sporting events as spectators or competitors following the COVID-19 crisis. The results suggest that, once all restrictions on movement and sporting event attendance have been revoked, most of the respondents from one Middle East and two European countries will attend events in their home country within few weeks. In addition, the respondents from the country that experienced more severe consequences of the pandemic perceive all protective measures as more important than the respondents from countries that were less affected.


Key words: sporting events, Coronavirus pandemic, safety, spectators, competitors

 

Author Biographies

Nicholas Wise, Arizona State University, School of Community Resources and Development, Phoenix, AZ

Nicholas Wise is Reader in International Urban Change in the Faculty of Business and Law at Liverpool John Moores University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now AdvanceHE). His current research focuses on urban studies, competitiveness, social regeneration and community impacts, conducting work across the areas of sport, events and tourism. He brings an international perspective to his teaching informed by scholarly research focusing on the Dominican Republic, Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Serbia and Italy. He has published across several disciplines and collaborates with colleagues across a number of academic disciplines. His most recent contributions appear in a number in international journals including: Cities, Geographical Research, Journal of Community Psychology, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Sport in Society, Local Economy, Sustainability, Tourism Management Perspectives, and he has written book chapters for a number of edited collections. He has edited 9 books.

Reza Heydari, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad

Reza Heydari is a PhD student in Sports Management at the Faculty of Sports Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He also holds a bachelor's degree in physical education and sports science and a master's degree in sports marketing management from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Tehran. Most of his research is in the field of sports tourism, but he is also interested in research in sports business, sports entrepreneurship, sports business, sports event management and sports marketing.

Mohammad Keshtidar, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Mohammad Keshtidar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sports Management at the Faculty of Sports Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. He has a bachelor's degree in physical education and sports science from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Tehran, and a master's degree in physical education and sports science from Tarbiat Modares University. He has also received a PhD in Physical Education and Sports Science from the Faculty of Sports Sciences, University of Tehran. In 2014, he became the director general of physical education at the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology; They were Iran. He has published numerous articles on strategic management and planning in sports, sports marketing, sports ethics, sports tourism and sports event management.

Janez Mekinc, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož

Janez Mekinc is Associate Professor in Tourism and a former dean at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies - Turistica, Slovenia. He is also a former president of the honorary arbitration court of the Codex of police ethics and an expert at the European Council in the program “Police and Human Rights”.  He was a scientific expert in a European project “Security&Tourism” led by European Forum for Urban Security (EfUS). The areas of his scientific work involves safety and security in tourism and protection of human rights and freedoms. Main results of his work have been published in many international journals such as Event Management, Sustainability, European Journal of Tourism Research, International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, Academica Turistica: Tourism & Innovation Journal, and Annales Kinesiologiae.

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Published

2021-02-16

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Perić, M., Wise, N., Heydari, R., Keshtidar, M., & Mekinc, J. (2021). Getting back to the event: covid-19, attendance and perceived importance of protective measures. Kinesiology, 53(1), 12–19. Retrieved from https://hrcak.srce.hr/ojs/index.php/kinesiology/article/view/11357

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Vol. 53 No. 1 (2021)

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