Strategic planning for sports tourism development in Lorestan province With an emphasis on quantitative models and qualitative

Subject Areas : Geography and Tourism Planning

somayeh  teymouri ¹ (phd.student)
abdalamir  majdam ² (PhD Student in Geography and Urban Planning, Yadegare Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2018-11-24 Accepted : 2019-03-09 Published : 2019-07-23

Keywords: modeling quantitative / qualitative, Lorestan province, Tourism, sports, Strategic planning,

Abstract :

The role of sport tourism as a new source of employment, income, tax receipts were further confirmed by numerous studies. The aim of this study is strategic planning to develop sports tourism is Lorestan province . The study was descriptive - documentary and field-based analysis using SWOT strategic model and the next step proposed strategies using quantitative matrix (QSPM) is. Results The results show invasive strategy (SO) in first priority with a score of 3/42 and competitive strategy (ST) in the second priority with a score of 2/63 sports tourism were identified as the most important strategies that can be concluded that the there should be more opportunities in this field strengths and utilizes the strengths of the opportunities available to her advantage.