Analysis of environmental and management factors affecting the development of equestrian

Document Type : Animal environment

Authors

1 Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Humanities and Sport Sciences, Gonbad Kavous University, Gonbad Kavous, Iran

2 Department of Sport Management, Faculty of Physical Education, Mazandaran University, Babolsar, Iran

Abstract

Sustaining environment is one of the pillars of sustained development in sport. The purpose of the current study is to identify environmental and managerial factors affecting in equitation development. The design of research was descriptive-survey and the approach to its implementation was mixed-exploratory. The population in qualitative phase was 26 experts in equitation. Validity of the questionnaire was checked by a panel of 17 experts, exploratory factor analysis is yielded to be .87, and reliability is reported to be .92 via running Cronbach’s Alpha. SPSS 25 software was employed for the purpose of identifying the procedures affecting on equitation as well as analyzing the data via running exploratory factor analysis. The findings indicated that among 25 procedures which were given to the population in three form of managerial, environment, and somatic in Likert continuum, 5 factors such as outsourcing, private sector entry, tourism development, supporting internal breeders, and designing places by protecting environment in equitation were identified. Integrated management and giving value on horse tourism industry can be efficacious in environment protection through focusing on horse and economic growth development.

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