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A Consideration of the Factors Influencing Sport Tourism Development in Zanjan-Iran

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  • Akbar Heidary

    (University of Tehran)

  • S.N. Sajjadi

    (University of Tehran)

  • M.J. Farahani

    (University of Tehran)

  • Shahram IskandariPour

    (University of Tarbiat Moaelum)

  • Abolfazl Meshkini

    (Tarbiat Mudares University)

  • Tagi Heidary

    (Tarbiat Mudares University)

Abstract

Today, tourism and sport enjoy a complementary interrelationship directly affecting the nations` economy. Also, sport tourism is, nowadays, considered as the most lucrative industry worldwide. In addition, it may affect the all social strata economically and politically. Thus needless to say that much more attention should be directed to the industry through clear-cut policies, visions and constructive plans in this regard. To this end, In this paper, the authors investigate and offer guidelines for sport tourism development in Zanjan from economic, social and cultural perspectives .This is an applied research carried out as field study. The statistical sample is divided into 2 groups:1)Experts including physical education teachers, cultural heritage and physical education department employees and,2)Customers including different sportsmen/women traveling to Zanjan. The research tool is a 43 item researcher-made questionnaire in Likert scale whose reliability and validity were confirmed by a board of university professors. To process the data,we applied demographical as well as inferential statistics. The chi-square results revealed that there was a significant relationship between both experts and customers`perceptions about sport tourism development in Zanjan.

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  • Akbar Heidary & S.N. Sajjadi & M.J. Farahani & Shahram IskandariPour & Abolfazl Meshkini & Tagi Heidary, 2011. "A Consideration of the Factors Influencing Sport Tourism Development in Zanjan-Iran," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 1(2), pages 51-55, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:hur:ijarbs:v:1:y:2011:i:2:p:51-55
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    Sport tourism; Zanjan; tourism;
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