نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکتری تخصصی گروه مدیریت ورزشی، واحد کرج، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، کرج، ایران
2 استاد گروه مدیریت ورزشی، واحد کرج، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، کرج، ایران
3 استاد گروه مدیریت ورزشی، واحد کرج، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، کرج
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Social media influencers, by producing persuasive content, play a key role in shaping the behavior of sports tourists and influencing their travel decisions. The purpose of this study was to develop an interpretive structural model of the influence of social media influencers on sports tourists' behavior. This research was applied in terms of purpose and mixed (qualitative-quantitative) in terms of methodology. In the qualitative part, thematic analysis was used, and in the quantitative part, interpretive structural modeling (ISM) was applied. Participants in the qualitative part included sports tourists and followers of social media influencers in the field of sports, who were selected by purposive sampling and snowball strategy. Based on theoretical saturation, 15 semi-structured interviews were conducted. In the quantitative part, participants included faculty members, tourism company managers, members of sports tourism committees, and startup activists, 10 of whom were purposefully selected. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews in the qualitative part and a 12×12 square matrix in the quantitative part. Validity and reliability in the qualitative part were assessed using strategies such as credibility, transferability, confirmability, and audit trail, and in the quantitative part, face validity and Cohen's kappa coefficient were used. The qualitative findings led to the extraction of 57 sub-themes in the form of 12 main themes (audience behavioral expectation, travel-related businesses behavioral expectation, transferring the desired image of the destination to the audience, motivation, audience behavioral intentions, relationship with the audience, pervasive virtual space, helping the audience's decision-making, information quality, content quality, influencer's influence, and influencer's characteristics). The quantitative findings showed that the hierarchical model consists of five levels; "Audience behavioral intentions" is at the highest level, and "pervasive virtual space" and "influencer's characteristics" are at the lowest level. Other factors acted as mediators. The results of MICMAC analysis showed that all factors are in an integrated and interconnected structure and none of them can act independently. The findings of this research show that the influence of social media influencers on the behavior of sports tourists can be explained within the framework of a multi-level model, in which the interactions between independent, mediating, and dependent variables play a key role.
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