Effective Factors on Sports Tourism: Emphasizing Development in Sports Natural Attractions

Authors

Hasan Safdel Young Researchers Club, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kurdistan

Mozafar Yektayar Department of Sports Sciences, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University

Sardar Mohammadi Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Kurdistan

Tayebeh Molazem Department of Education, Physical Education, Education District 6

Abstract:

The goal of this research is the evaluation of some of the effective environmental attractions on Khorasan Razavi’s sports tourism development. The research statistical population include of all in charge expert and professors in field of sport and tourism as 120 persons. This research is past-event descriptive that had been performed based on field method. Sampling had been performed as Categorized to determine effective environmental attraction effects on Khorasan Razavi’s tourism development, the questions had been analyzed by researcher that its validity had been confirmed by experts and Cronbach's alpha had been calculated as 0.82. Findings show that from experts and managers viewpoints, effective factors on sport tourism development with emphasis on sport natural attractions include of tourism and pilgrim attractions, natural treatment and warm water attractions and summer and water sports that are the most important items in Khorasan Razavi. Also there are three important factors in relation to problem and obstacles as Management problems, cultural problems and infrastructure problems. Research results show that pilgrim locations are effective to attract tourism and knowing the effect of tourism industry development effects and present obstacles and limitation in the province, attention to sport tourism development importance and applying various benefits of sport tourist attraction are necessary and programming and sport tourism developments by province planner and policy makers would be required.

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Journal title

Annals of Applied Sport Science

volume 2 issue None

pages 67- 74

publication date 2014-12

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