Marketing research for organizers of sports events

Sports Tourism Marketing

Research dealing with the motives of sports tourists from a marketer’s perspective remains underdeveloped. This chapter describes the phenomenon of sports tourism and aspires to examine with an empirical study the motives of winter and summer sports tourists. The first sample (n=339) was comprised of active as well as passive summer sports tourists. The second sample (n=477) only focused on act...

Sports Management and Marketing

Compiling a Marketing Strategic Plan for Iran's Student Sports Federation

The present research has aimed to compile a strategic marketing plan for the Student Sports Federation. Using a mixed research method, the study took a qualitative and quantitative approach. In the qualitative phase, the statistical population of this research consisted of the Student Sports Federation managers and officials, university professors and experts on students' sports (16 individuals...

Designing social media sports marketing model

This study aimed to Designing social media sports marketing model. This qualitative study was conducted by using grounded theory methodology Strauss and Corbin approach. For gathering data, high level documents have been studied and Semi-structured In-depth Individual Interview experts who were aware of the subject. The statistical population of the study consisted professors & sports managers ...

Sports marketing: an examination of academic marketing publication

Looks at the sports industry and addresses the current situation for authors seeking to publish in the area of sports marketing. Sports currently represents the eleventh largest industry in the USA. Despite this, there are few mainstream marketing journals willing to publish manuscripts on sports marketing. In an effort to circumvent this problem, some sports marketing authors have `̀ disguised'...