Analysis of Factors Affecting Formation of Human Wealth in Sports Tourism of Iran

The purpose of this work was to determine the factors affecting the formation of human wealth in sport tourism of Iran.

The present research work is a descriptive-analytical one, which was done on the field. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the knowledgeable and well-informed people in the field of sport tourism including some university professors and sports tourism managers as well as some directors and people who were active in the field of sport tourism. Using a snowball sampling method to reach the theoretical saturation in order to introduce the knowledgeable people into the field of sport tourism, 57 people were identified as the sample of the study. The research instrument consisted of two researcher-made questionnaires for categorizing the components and structuring the identified components. For analyzing the data of the present study, the exploratory factor analysis and interpretive structural modeling were used.

The results of the exploratory factor analysis showed that in total, 6 factors (cultural, legal, infrastructural, financial, individual, and environment-spatial factors) contained a total of 78.51% of the total variance of questions. The results also showed that the individual factors and environmental factors were the key independent factors that affected the other factors.

The results of this study shows that the development of human resources requires the development of individual factors and environmental factors, and the formation of human wealth is due to the development of individual factors and environmental factors.