جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « برندسازی مقصد » در نشریات گروه « تربیت بدنی »

The sports tourism brand of each country has an undeniable effect on attracting sports tourists and can introduce countries for the activists of this easy industry and guide and help tourists in the destination and have a significant contribution to the income generation of a country. It should be acknowledged that many factors can affect the destination branding, which in some scattered articles and researches, some of these indicators have been mentioned. So, the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of environmental quality indicators on Damavand sports tourism branding which is known as one of the tourist attractions.

The present study is descriptive-analytical and, using multivariate regression statistical methods and path analysis. According to the Morgan’s table The statistical population included 384 sports tourists based on convenience sampling method. To gather data, Rezvani (2017) and Acker (1991) questionnaires were used.

The results showed that the economic component had the most and the natural environment component had the least direct effect on Damavand sports tourism branding. Also, taking into account the indirect effects, the component of the institutional environment has had the most impact.

Therefore, in order to brand Damavand sports tourism, it is necessary to pay more attention to the factors affecting the economic and institutional environment and solving the problems of the natural environment.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of experiential values in sports tourism destination branding.

The research method was descriptive-correlational. To this end, 245 sports tourists who had chosen Iran as a sports tourism destination, completed questionnaires of Ahn et al. (2019) about experimental value, Andersen et al. (2018) about destination brand image, and Sharma and Nayak (2019) about behavioral intentions. The data analysis method was the modeling of structural equations using Smart PLS software version 3.

The findings indicated that experiential values, including consumer return on investment, service excellence, aesthetic and entertainment, can significantly affect the destination image and that the image of the sports tourism destination can subsequently affect the behavioral intentions of sports tourists about Iran as a sports tourism destination.

Based on the findings, it can be concluded that if Iran, as a sports tourism destination, seeks to increase its share of the global sports tourism market, four dimensions of experimental values should be considered as one of the important factors in sports tourism destination branding.

The study is to investigate the role of destination familiarity in the branding of Iran as a sport tourism destination. The statistical population was consisted of all foreign tourists traveling to Iran. 360 people using convenience sampling method participated in the study as the statistical sample. The data gathering instruments were destination familiarity (Liu et al., 2018), destination brand image (Andersen et al., 2018) and behavioral intention (Wu et al., 2018) questionnaires and data analysis was structural based on equation modeling. The validity (content, convergent and divergent) and reliability (load factor, composite reliability coefficient, Cronbach's alpha coefficient) of the questionnaires indicated that they were of good reliability and validity. The results showed that destination familiarity can significantly affect the brand image of the destination with the path coefficient of 0/83, and the image of the sports tourism destination can subsequently affect the behavioral intention of the sports tourists with the path coefficient of 0/68. Also, destination familiarity can directly affect behavioral intention of the sports tourists with the path coefficient of 0/63. In other words, by enhancing the familiarity, destination image and tourists’ behavioral intentions will affect positively. Totally, these findings indicate the role of destination familiarity in the branding of Iran as a sports tourism destination.  Based on the findings, it can be suggested that if Iran's sport tourism destinations seek to increase their share of the global sports tourism market, then they should pay special attention to the role of familiarity in branding Iran as a sports tourism destination.