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

Abstract

The goal of this research is the evaluation of some of the effective environmental attractions on Khorasan Razavi's sports tourism development. 120 persons of all in charge expert and professors in field of sport and tourism participated in this study. Because of lack of standard tools based on research goals, after studying resources‚ questionnaire was designed with 50 questions and 11 sub-scales. Rating had been performed using Likert scale (5-item). The questionnaire included of three parts: Demographic, Attractions and Problems. The questionnaires validity had been confirmed by experts and Cronbach's alpha had been calculated as 0.82. Findings showed that effective factors on sport tourism development with emphasis on sport natural attractions is included 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 problems and obstacles as Management problems, cultural problems and infrastructure problems. Research results show that pilgrim locations are effective to attract tourists and knowing the effects of tourism industry development and present of 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.