Mirfakhradini Faeze Sadat
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In the 21st century, the meaning of place is important to people. Meanings have gained symbolic importance through tourism heritage. Tourism is a powerful force in shaping the world and our individual understanding of different cultures, people and places. Using the descriptive-analytical method based ...
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In the 21st century, the meaning of place is important to people. Meanings have gained symbolic importance through tourism heritage. Tourism is a powerful force in shaping the world and our individual understanding of different cultures, people and places. Using the descriptive-analytical method based on library documents and the opinion of research experts, this research investigates the complexities of religious tourism and the management of religious destinations and obtains criteria for the management of religious goals with a detailed look. Then, using research experts and ISM-PLS hybrid approach, a three-level framework for managing religious goals in Yazd city has been presented and analyzed. According to the results, the government's decisions and actions were recognized as the most effective criteria, and the ultimate goal was to create a sense of trust and security among religious tourists. It is hoped that the findings of this research will be a starting point for the management of religious tourism destinations and a guide for examining the complexities of Islamic tourism destinations and their management.
Javad Madani; Rahim Zare; Ahmad Mahmoudi
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Sports tourism is one of the most attractive types of tourism that occurs in different regions and countries. This tourism type is effective in economic fields and extremely significant in cultural and sportsmanship contexts. To this end, the current research aimed to identify and explain the effective ...
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Sports tourism is one of the most attractive types of tourism that occurs in different regions and countries. This tourism type is effective in economic fields and extremely significant in cultural and sportsmanship contexts. To this end, the current research aimed to identify and explain the effective components of sport tourism in the sublimity of culture and sportsmanship, conducted through a mixed method. This research approach was sequential exploratory in two qualitative-quantitative phases, in which “thematic analysis” and “survey” methods were used, respectively. The first phase’s statistical population included experts in sport tourism, sport management, culture management, and sportsmanship, with 14 individuals participating in semi-structured interviews using a purposive sampling method. After determining the effective actors in this field, 32 experts responded to questionnaires using a systematic sampling method in the study’s second phase. According to the research findings of the first phase, the themes extracted from the semi-structured interviews comprised 39 fundamental themes, 15 organizing themes, and four global themes. Per the second phase of the study’s findings, all themes were approved by the experts, all determinants of the role of sport tourism in the sublimity of sports culture and sportsmanship. As a result, sports tourism, while creating macroeconomic benefits for residents and visitors, significantly contributes to the sublimity of sports culture and sportsmanship, where this category can strengthen the value and ethical attitudes in addition to creating recreational experiences.
Majid Farhadi Uonaki; Manoochehr Jahanian
Volume 6, Issue 1 , March 2023
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Background and aim: This study aims to create an experience-based tourism model for creative cultural attractionsMaterials and Methods: This research is mixed in terms of methodology. In the qualitative part, the qualitative content analysis method was used. The statistical population for this part were ...
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Background and aim: This study aims to create an experience-based tourism model for creative cultural attractionsMaterials and Methods: This research is mixed in terms of methodology. In the qualitative part, the qualitative content analysis method was used. The statistical population for this part were experts who were selected by the snowball sampling method. The structural equation method was used in the quantitative part. The second statistical population included visitors to Tehran's creative cultural attractions; 384 were selected by random sampling.Results: The model was designed based on the research results. The desired model consists of three parts before the visit, during the visit and after the visit. Before the visit, the individual characteristics, image, motivation, and visitors’ expectations directly impacted the creative experience. During the visit, the creative experience directly impacted the experience scape and the memorable experience process, and the experience scape affected visitors’ memorable experience process directly. After the visit, the visitor's memorable experiences directly influenced satisfaction and lasting memories.Conclusions: This study's findings lead to creating creative experiences for visitors and developing creative cultural attractions. The tourism industry policymakers can rank creative cultural attractions by setting up a registration system for them, awarding creative certificates to prominent attractions, and providing them with the basis of progress.