Ghodratallah Bagheri; Ali Moghadamzadeh; Hasan Asadi; Hasan Almasi; Majid Javid
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Tourism development in every country requires investment and without investing in infrastructure and superstructure plans cannot be expected to develop tourism.The purpose of present study was to discover a theoretical structure & deliver a comprehensive pattern about investment of sport tourism ...
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Tourism development in every country requires investment and without investing in infrastructure and superstructure plans cannot be expected to develop tourism.The purpose of present study was to discover a theoretical structure & deliver a comprehensive pattern about investment of sport tourism destinations in Ardabil province. This study is a practical one. It's worth mentioning that our study was conducted in a new field & no comprehensive investigation has been done which covers overview of investment about sport tourism destinations. Thus, this research was conducted using qualitative approach. Statistical population of this study consisted sport management experts, tourism and economy experts, department of cultural heritage & tourism managers, department of Sport & youth managers, provincial government managers, municipality managers, parliament members & tourism agencies managers of Ardabil province. Mixed of some theoretical sampling methods, for example Snowball sampling, Politically important cases sampling, Critical case sampling, Criterion sampling were utilized to select the samples of this study, qualitative interviews were conducted to gather information in our study. Data and codes reached theoretical saturation following 21 interviews. Statistics analysis were conducted systematically by using thematic analysis method in Nvivo 12 Plus software. Finally, 48 codes were identified after analyzing data which were classified in 4 main classes based on their importance. The results of present study provide the politicians and planners of this province with adequate approaches to expedite the process of developing tourism destinations economically in Ardabil Province.
Javid Fazaeil; Farzad Ghafouri; Majid Javid; Samad Goodarzi
Volume 19, Issue 48 , September 2020, , Pages 197-218
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In recent years, tourism has introduced itself as an instrument for sustainable development of host community. The study is to investigate the role of sport tourism in the development of Sarein city. This is a surveying descriptive applied study. The statistical population included of tourists, residents, ...
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In recent years, tourism has introduced itself as an instrument for sustainable development of host community. The study is to investigate the role of sport tourism in the development of Sarein city. This is a surveying descriptive applied study. The statistical population included of tourists, residents, local authorities and officials of the Serein Winter Sports Festival. Due to the uncertainty of the number of statistical populations, 384 participants were selected randomly as statistical sample using Cochran formula for unknown population size. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire that was distributed after validation and reliability (α=89). Data from 337 returned questionnaires were analyzed by SPSS V.24 and Amos V.24 software and One-Sample T-Test and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) were used. The results of data analysis showed that sport tourism has a positive and significant role in all aspects of development (p<0/05). Also, in evaluating the indicators for each of developmental dimensions, the index «Creating new jobs and reducing unemployment» in economic development, «combating ethnic and racial discrimination and helping to accept socio-cultural differences» in social development and «changing in behavior of Local residents in order to better protect from environment» in the environmental dimension were the most important indicators of sustainable development in the studied area.
Hassan Asadi; Mahmood Goodarzi; majid javid
Volume 12, Issue 21 , April 2013, , Pages 81-100
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The aim of the present study is to examine the attitude of Managers and Specialists in sport, tourism and sports media towards the role of mass media in sport tourism marketing in the province of Tehran. Research samples are comprised of the Managers and Specialists in sport, tourism and sports media ...
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The aim of the present study is to examine the attitude of Managers and Specialists in sport, tourism and sports media towards the role of mass media in sport tourism marketing in the province of Tehran. Research samples are comprised of the Managers and Specialists in sport, tourism and sports media who work in Tehran Province. Research tools are based on a standardized questionnaire that was used only after being confirmed of its validity and reliability (α: 86). Data from 267 questionnaires returned were analyzed by SPSS V.21 and Amos V.21 software using Kolmogorov–Smirnov, Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Kolmogorov - Smirnov Results showed the data distribution was not normal. Friedman test results showed that, among other media, TV have more effective role in sports tourism marketing from viewpoint of the three groups. Moreover, considering the discussion of the factors, advertising the Events and Attractions in order to attract tourists after being selected as the host with a factor loading of 0.88 and encouraging Tourism Agencies to use sports and entertainment activities In the Tourism packages with a factor loading of 0.75 have the highest role in the development of sports tourism marketing.
