Category FAQs Search : Sport Tourism
Question: The Impact of Hosting Sporting Events on Sport Tourism Development: A Case Study
Answer: 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 2 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 hypotheses
(Source: , 08 Oct 2021)
Source Link: https://www.sportanddev.org/sites/default/files/downloads/55_182_1_pb.pdf