نشریه مطالعات مدیریت گردشگری
پیاپی 60 (زمستان 1401)

Sports tourism is one of the most important types of tourism, growing and developing rapidly. Tourist destinations in the field of sports, while supporting sports tourism policies, are also directed towards environmental issues, which try to create green behaviors in tourists. Therefore, sports tourism is one field that has implemented this category. This research aims to investigate sports tourism's role in promoting tourists' green behaviors, focusing on Ardabil province. The current research method is mixed, which was carried out using a sequential exploratory approach in two qualitative-quantitative phases. The methods used in this research are "thematic analysis and survey," respectively. The statistical population of the research in the first phase includes experts in sports tourism, sport management, and behavior management, who were interviewed using the persuasive sampling method. In the second phase of the research, the influential actors of this field were used. Using the systematic sampling method, 31 experts answered the questionnaire questions. According to the research findings in the first phase, the themes extracted from the semi-structured interviews were categorized into 36 basic themes, 15 organizing themes, and three global themes. According to the findings of the second phase of the research, all themes were approved by the experts, and all of them are factors that determine the role of sports tourism in promoting the green behaviors of tourists. As a result, sports tourism, while creating macro "social, cultural and economic" benefits for residents and visitors, has a significant contribution to the occurrence of green behaviors in tourists, and this category, while protecting the environment, also has an impact on the development of sports tourism. Also, this category represents a combination of green behaviors that can strengthen and develop visitors' pro-environmental attitudes and create recreational experiences.

The belief of the stakeholders who provide tourism services in the destination plays an important role in the sustainability of destinations. The values ​​of variables affecting these beliefs are always ambiguous and the causal relationships between them are uncertain. If we want to consider the reality of the dynamics in their opinions, the complexity of the issue will increase. For this purpose, we used fuzzy logic, Bayesian belief networks and opinion dynamics models. It is implemented on the data of Iranian stakeholders with the aim of attracting Chinese tourists. The data was collected by the questionnaire during the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 and is related to 540 stakeholders. Finally, not only an agent-based simulation is provided to visualize trends and how they evolve or co-evolve, but the possibility of predicting defective and desirable trends is provided to prevent or strengthen them, respectively.

Tourism can, on the one hand, strengthen national and ethnic identities, and on the other hand, it can accelerate fading of these identities. In addition, national-ethnic identity is one of the obstacles against rapid cultural homogenization due to globalization. Considering more than five decades of research on tourism and national-ethnic identity, and the lack of a comprehensive review of literature, this study aims to conduct a quantitative literature review using bibliometric analysis. Performance analysis and science mapping of 383 documents indexed in the Scopus database were performed using VOSviewer_1.6.18 software in order to understand the social and conceptual structure of the research field. The findings revealed that in the last decade research on heritage tourism among diaspora and immigrants, outbound tourists’ representation of their national-ethnic identity, and the representation of the destinations’ national-ethnic identity through tourism have been among the hot topics that can also be considered in future studies.

The present study investigated the role of tourists' motivations and perceived risks in attachment to adventure sports tourism destinations. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive correlation in terms of nature. The statistical population included paraglider pilots who traveled to the flight sites of Golestan province in the year 1400 (2021), of which 103 were selected as a sample using available sampling. Data were collected using three questionnaires and analyzed by structural equation modeling. The research findings showed that the four motivations of pleasure, excitement, socialization, and escape positively and significantly affect attachment to adventurous sports destinations. Also, perceived risk negatively and significantly affects tourists' attachment to adventure sports destinations. Based on the findings, operational suggestions for sports adventure tourism destinations have been presented.

The need to change the economic system to ensure that it does not exceed environmental limits creates many efforts to address sustainability issues. In this context, the circular economy model is expanding at the political, commercial, and academic levels. Therefore, the main goal of the current research is to identify the factors affecting the realization of entrepreneurial ecotourism based on a circular economy. In this regard; 152 articles were identified from the authoritative Google Scholar database, and after applying various filters, 14 articles that were most related to the topic in terms of title, abstract, methodology, and text were selected and analyzed using a Meta-synthesis approach. 62 open codes were counted in the form of 7 core codes. The extracted classes were presented in three stages: pre-travel (empowerment and value creation), during travel (technological and bio-oriented), and post-travel(recycling and sustainability).

The need to change the economic system to ensure that it does not exceed environmental constraints creates a great deal of effort to address sustainability issues. In this regard, the circular economy model is expanding at the political, commercial, and academic levels. The primary purpose of this study is to identify and analyze previous studies in circular economics and its relationship with the tourism industry. In this regard, 152 articles were identified from the authoritative Google Scholar database. After applying various filters, 14 articles most relevant to the phenomenon regarding title, abstract, methodology, and main text were selected and analyzed using a hybrid approach. Sixty-two open source codes and, at the higher level, seven core codes were counted. The extracted classes were presented in three stages: pre-circulation (empowerment and value creation), during circulation (technology and biocentrism), and post-circulation (axial recycling and continuity).