Modeling the factors affecting brand value in the tourism destination of Gonbad-e-Kavos city with emphasis on sporting events

AIn recent years, cities have had to compete with each other to promote yourself to create an attractive tourism destination. In the competitive global market, brand management and positioning of tourism destinations are one of the most important challenges in the field of tourism. Sport events are one of the strategic tools for branding destination in a competitive market. The purpose of this study was to develop a factors affecting brand equity model for tourism destination of Gonbad Kavous with emphasis on sport events in.This research is descriptive-correlative. 374 sport tourist who were selected by simple random technique among tourists at Gonbad-e-Kavos sport event in spring of 1397. The results showed that the coefficient of effect of all variables of awareness, subjective image, perceived quality, loyalty and sporting event on brand equity in tourism destination was significant with regard to t value (p< 0.005). Loyalty and sporting events had the highest impact on brand equity in tourism destinations compared to other factors studied. Holding a sporting event transfers positive experiences from the sporting event to the tourist destination in the minds of tourists, thereby increasing tourist loyalty to the destination and reducing the costs of research and perceived risk to tourists.