Sport Tourism and Sustainable Local Development for Host Cities for Sporting Events

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Designing a model for holding mega sport events with an emphasis on national brand development

The present study seeks a model for holding major sporting events with an emphasis on national brand development. The research method is a mixture of qualitative and quantitative. In the quantitative part, the statistical population, including professors and sports activists, and the statistical sample was done by stratified random sampling. Adequate number for modeling in pls software was 300 ...

Tourism , Culture and Sustainable Development

This study has been carried out as a part of the programme " Culture, tourism and development " of the Division of cultural policies and intercultural dialogue, Section culture and development by Pr Mike Robinson and Dr David Picard. The views expressed by the author, the selection of facts presented and the opinions stated with regard to the facts are the responsibility of the author and do no...

Investigating the role of tourism of sporting events on the economic development of Turkmen Sahara region in Golestan province

The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of sports events tourism on the economic development of the Turkmen Sahara region in Golestan province. The research was a series of exploratory experiments based on the data collected. Data collection tools in the qualitative phase were semi-structured interviews. The statistical sample in the qualitative section includes; 19 tourism man...

Sport-mega-events – a Tool of Destination Management Importance of Infrastructure Investment for the Tourism Development

The competition of cities and nations around the favour of the tourists and investors is a long-known phenomenon. However the conditions have changed radically as a result of the general globalization, the rapid technological progress and the distinctive increase of mobility. Today the tourism destinations compete in world wide rivalry and the competition becomes more and more intensive. By the...