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The Impact of Hosting Sporting Events on Sport Tourism Development: A Case Study

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science

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Title The Impact of Hosting Sporting Events on Sport Tourism Development: A Case Study
 
Creator Ehsani, Mohammed; Tarbait Modares University,Iran
Sogdel, Hossein Sadeqi
Heidary, Akbar; Islamic Azad University,Zanjan Branch,Zanjan,Iran
Jamshidi, Arefe
 
Subject Business; economics
 
Description Sport tourism is an ever increasing industry recognized as a factor influencing the economic and social restructuring of urban and rural areas in the developing countries .It is considered as a main component of sport –dependent tourism in many countries and recently has attracted much attention as a "domestic market. Hence, the purpose of the present research was to investigate and offer guidelines for sport tourism development in Zanjan  from economic,  social and cultural perspectives .This was an applied research carried out as field study. The statistical sample was divided into two groups: (i) experts including physical education teachers, cultural heritage and physical education department employees and (ii) Customers including different sportsmen and sportswomen travelling to Zanjan. The research tool was a 43 item researcher-made questionnaire in Likert scale whose reliability and validity were confirmed by a board of university professors. We applied descriptive to describe the demography and,T-test and Friedman to test our hypothesesKeywords: Sport tourism; Zanjan; tourism
 
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Date 2012-10-10
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ssbfnet.com/ojs/index.php/ijrbs/article/view/55
 
Source International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science ( ISSN: 2147- 4478); Vol 1, No 1 (2012): IJRBS; 39-44
2147-4478
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ssbfnet.com/ojs/index.php/ijrbs/article/view/55/33