Hamidreza Ghezelsefloo; Seyed Mohammad Hossein Razavi; Masumeh Kalateh Seifari
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Traditional sports festivals as the most prominent symbol of cultural values have become the newest tourism opportunity in the last decade. Therefore, this study aims to design a qualitative tourism model of traditional festivals based on Grounded Theory strategy. The research structure is of the exploratory ...
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Traditional sports festivals as the most prominent symbol of cultural values have become the newest tourism opportunity in the last decade. Therefore, this study aims to design a qualitative tourism model of traditional festivals based on Grounded Theory strategy. The research structure is of the exploratory type, which has a qualitative approach. The qualitative research population consisted of 35 experts and specialists active in sports tourism organizations and informed residents of the host communities, who were selected by targeted sampling and based on judgmental sampling. To collect data, semi-structured interviews, and the formation of a focus group were used. After the initial coding of concepts and classification of categories, eight components were identified in the form of human potentials and natural-sports potentials among which, according to the frequency of the registered codes and the statements of the focus group, the most important features of the present study were the holding of traditional festivals and the opportunity to display and exchange cultural values of the host communities. Therefore, using local festivals as a tool for tourism development is a new and efficient approach. Thus, according to the current research model, by emphasizing the cultural values of traditional sports festivals, these places can be considered as the top hub of traditional sports festivals.
Mahdi Karobi; Fatemeh Yavari Gohar; Reza Sarkheil
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of eco-tourism culture on conservation of Lar National Park. The research method was descriptive-survey and the data were collected by field survey. The statistical population of this study was all the researchers (ecotourists) of Lar National Park ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of eco-tourism culture on conservation of Lar National Park. The research method was descriptive-survey and the data were collected by field survey. The statistical population of this study was all the researchers (ecotourists) of Lar National Park in 2017. Due to the limited statistical population (more than 100 thousand people), the statistical sample of the study was 384 tourists based on statistical tables (Krejci & Morgan) using an available sampling method. After distributing and collecting data and separating incomplete and confused questionnaires, statistical analysis was performed on 345 questionnaires. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its face and content validity were confirmed by 11 professors of tourism and environmental sciences. The structural validity of the questionnaire was examined by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability of the questionnaire through Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the ecotourist culture’s questionnaire and national park protection’s questionnaire were obtained (α = 0.89) and (α = 0.90) respectively. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, mean, standard deviation, and inferential statistics of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used and the research model was analyzed using SPSS and LISREL software. This project indicated that the variables of responsibility, social behavior, normalization, education, knowledge and awareness, and religious and traditional values are affecting environmental behaviors. As a general result, it can be said that culture is the determinant for tourist’s behavior in national parks and the environmental behavior of individuals in a community originated from this key factor.
