Hasan Ssafdel; Loghman Keshavarz
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to identify the factors affecting sport tourism and its developmental model. It is an applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of methodology. The statistical population of the research was include of stakeholders who were educated in two different ...
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The purpose of this research is to identify the factors affecting sport tourism and its developmental model. It is an applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of methodology. The statistical population of the research was include of stakeholders who were educated in two different field of tourism. and also Ph.D. holders or faculty members in sports management with at least two published papers in the area of sports tourism or at least 10 years of senior management experience (N=189). The whole population were considered as samples due to limited number of population. The research tool was a modified sport tourism questionnaire of Ghiami Rad and Moharam zadeh (1999). The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 12 relevant experts and its validity was confirmed by the confirmatory factor analysis. Also, the reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed in a preliminary study, which was conducted on 30 members of the research community, and all Cronbach's alpha coefficients were more than 0.70, which indicated an appropriate reliability of the questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected data. To provide descriptive data, statistical frequency, frequency and frequency tables were used and for analyzing the data in the inferential statistics section, verification factors, exploratory factor analysis, single sample T, Friedman test and analysis Structural equations were used with SPSS and Amos version 23 software. The results showed that there is a significant priority between all the attracting, inhibiting and diving factors. Finally, the model of factors influencing the development of sport tourism in Iran was compiled and fitted using different fitting indexes such as absolute, comparative, Normandy, Tucker-Lewis, and Benthaler-Bonnet. The results showed that there is a significant priority between all the attracting, inhibiting and diving factors. Finally, the model of factors influencing the development of sport tourism in Iran was compiled and fitted using different fitting indexes such as absolute, comparative, Normandy, Tucker-Lewis, and Benthaler-Bonnet
