Masoume Adami; Hossein Panahi
Volume 4, Issue 4 , May 2016, , Pages 55-64
Abstract
This research aims to investigate sports tourism potentials and the factors affecting its development in East Azerbaijan Province. Statictical society including 40 people of managers and staff of sport, tourism and cultural Heritage organizations who were selected randomly. Required data for the research ...
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This research aims to investigate sports tourism potentials and the factors affecting its development in East Azerbaijan Province. Statictical society including 40 people of managers and staff of sport, tourism and cultural Heritage organizations who were selected randomly. Required data for the research was collected through a standard questionnaire and then was analyzed through using SPSS software. In order to evaluate the development capability of sports tourism in East Azerbaijan Province, three types of factors including; push factors, pull factors and deterrent factors were studied. The results show that the most important components of push factor are achieving peace, relaxation, and physical and mental refreshment, the most important component of pull factor is transportation situation and the most important element of deterrent factor is insufficient leisure time in development of sports tourism in East Azerbaijan Province.
