Identification of Opportunities and Utilization of Them Due to Developing Babolsar Township Marine and Beach Sports

The goal of this study is identifying opportunities and utilizing them due to developing Babolsar township marine and beach sports.Mixed research method has been done in two levels qualitatively and quantitatively.In qualitative level the opportunities have been determined in qualification level by semi-structured interview and then a questionnaire has been codified and it distributed among 25 human samples.In quantitative level in three rounds by Delfi method, as in first and second round the answer of questions was in type of yes or no questions and in third round, the questionnaire has been distributed in 5dimensions among samples with the 5-point Likert value.Statistical society includes professional of physical education and science sport,masters of tourism,masters of economic,province and township youth and sport department, coaches and national heroes of marine and beach courses.Friedman Test has been used In order to analyze data from SPSS software and rank the dimensions and variables. The findings shows that the geographical-tourism and infrastructure dimension is the most important dimension in this study which the existence of river and sea and beach has been determined as the most important opportunities in this dimension.The other dimensions have been determined in order of importance in geographical-tourism and infrastructure dimension, economical, human resources, management-communicative and cultural-social. It has been suggested to sport managers of the country and Mazandaran province due to determined opportunities reference of dimensions according to the ranks in this study and similar studies proceed to utilize them in order to develop marine and beach sports of Babolsar Township.