Political obstacles of the development of sports tourism coastal Mazandaran province

The aim of this study was to investigate the political obstacles to the development of sports tourism coastal in the mazandaran province. This research method was mixed. The statistical population consisted of officials of the province governor, gubernatorial, department of sport and youth as well as officials in the coastal lifeguards and the sampling method was purposive available sampling. In the qualitative section, obstacles were identified by using semi-structured interviews with a sample (n = 18) and interviews stopped after the theoretical saturation. In the quantitative section the findings from the interviews the form of a questionnaire survey were distributed and collected among 384 individuals. The validity and reliability of qualitative section examined by member’s review and re-coding ways. Face validity and content validity of the questionnaire was conducted by experts and factor analysis (KMO=0.8). The reliability of the questionnaire was assessed by Cronbach's alpha (=α0.83). To analyze the interviews was used of Grounded Theory and using the open coding, axial coding and selective coding. In the quantitative section data analysis was used descriptive and inferential statistics (Friedman test). The Findings revealed that lack of appropriate legislation to protect coastal sports tourism, lack of coordination between the various entities concerned, official duties unclear in different parts of the decision-maker and lack of strategic plans and acts of individual taste some of those involved in the development of sports tourism coastal was as the most important obstacles from the perspective of the respondents. .