Challenges and inhibiting factors of sports tourism in Iran

Poster Presentation
Paper ID : 1476-SSRC
Authors
1دانشیار مدیریت ورزشی دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی
2دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
Abstract
The development of sports tourism is one of the important factors in the economic and social ‎development of countries, it is very important. The aim of this study, it is to identify the challenges and ‎obstacles and the factors preventing sports tourism in Iran. research method in terms of practical purpose ‎and in terms of strategy, Qualitative is a multi-method. The implementation path in the first part was ‎documentary and in the second part was interview. Data analysis in the documentary section using ‎document content analysis and in the interview section, it was a thematic analysis. The research ‎community in the documentary section included all the researches conducted focusing on the challenges ‎and obstacles of sports tourism in Iran. In the interview section, the participants included sports ‎management specialists - tourism specialists - geography specialists - managers and leaders of tourism ‎tours and sports tourists who were selected purposefully. The interview started with 9 main experts and ‎experts and continued until the theoretical saturation was reached and finally 13 people were ‎interviewed. Data collection tools in the documentation department, there were slips and coding sheets ‎and in the interview section, the questions were open, paper, pen and audio recorder. To analyze the ‎data, the thematic analysis method was used using Max Kyuda software. The results showed that the ‎factors related to the challenges and inhibiting factors of sports tourism in Iran include four factors: ‎structural problems, managerial problems, cultural problems, and the personal problems of the tourists ‎themselves. Therefore, suitable strategies are recommended to remove the obstacles and factors ‎preventing sports tourism in order to facilitate the development of sports tourism in Iran, to be ‎determined.‎
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