An analytical study of sports tourism in Iraq from the perspective of the pioneers

Abstract

Sports tourism has a very important role in developing tourism activity, as it is a scientific approach to organizing and managing tourism activity with all its elements and patterns. It provides a common framework for making decisions in the management of tourism resources and provides responsible authorities with the methods and directions that they must take, which facilitates their work and saves a lot of effort. Lost in addition to increasing the practice of competitive sports activities. The research aims to prepare a measure of sports tourism in Iraq from the point of view of the pioneers. Identify the measure of sports tourism in Iraq from the point of view of the pioneers and determine the standard levels of the measure. The researcher used the measure of sports tourism consisting of (21) items, and the sample number was (50) pioneers in Iraq in terms of The two researchers reached a number of conclusions and recommendations, the most important of which is: The current scale is a tool for detecting the level of competencies of sports tourism planning in Iraq. Spreading tourism awareness through various visual, audio and print means of communication, including television, radio, newspapers and the Internet.