Ghodratallah Bagheri; Ali Moghadamzadeh; Hasan Asadi; Hasan Almasi; Majid Javid
Abstract
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.
Ehsan Mohammadi Torkamani; Ali Moghadam Zadeh; Hossein Khanifar
Volume 18, Issue 43 , June 2019, , Pages 229-244
Abstract
Lifestyle is a choice able area of living activities and one of the most important indicators in measuring modern lifestyle is leisure activities. Today, elite athletes are one of the most important groups in societies whose their lifestyles are at the center of public attention. In this regard, the ...
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Lifestyle is a choice able area of living activities and one of the most important indicators in measuring modern lifestyle is leisure activities. Today, elite athletes are one of the most important groups in societies whose their lifestyles are at the center of public attention. In this regard, the research is to study the typology of elite athletes' leisure lifestyle. The research method was qualitative and data collection tool were in-depth interviews. The statistical population of the study was expert people familiar with the life of elite athletes with an unknown number, which 19 of them were chosen purposeful and snowball as sample. The data were analyzed by using the thematic analysis technique and 75 codes were identified in 12 sub themes and four main themes. The four main themes addressed were the lifestyles of the elite athletes, with a family- centered style, distinctive style, virtual style and closed style.
In continue, the characteristics of each style were expressed. Also, analyzes showed that in typology of elite athletes' lifestyles, the way of occurrence and place of leisure activities are more important than leisure activities themselves and because of changes in the living conditions of athletes, there may be a variety of life styles over time.