Auteur: Sheranne Fairley

Dr. Fairley currently serves on the advisory board of the United States Australian Football League.  Her research focuses on three major streams: sport and event tourism, volunteerism, and the globalization of sport. Dr. Fairley has conducted various research and consultancy projects in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Recent projects she has been involved in include the globalization of Australian Rules Football in international markets, the sport tourism behaviours of friends and family of athletes who travel to the Olympic Games, and the legacy of Olympic volunteerism.  Kirstin Hallmann (Ph D, German Sport University Cologne (GSU)), is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Sport Economics and Sport Management at GSU. She also serves as program director of the M.Sc. Sport Management at GSU. Her main research fields are economics of sport demand and consumer behavior in tourism, event, and sport contexts (activeand passive participation, volunteering) and competitiveness. Her work is published in leading sport management and tourism journals.