Evaluating the Service Quality of the Hotel Establishments in Sports Tourism with Regard to the Athletes

Autor/inn/en	Osmanoglu, Hasan; Üzüm, Hanifi
Titel	Evaluating the Service Quality of the Hotel Establishments in Sports Tourism with Regard to the Athletes
Quelle	In: Higher Education Studies, 8 (2018) 2, S.29-36 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1925-4741
Schlagwörter	Correlation; Team Sports; Athletes; Statistical Analysis; Tourism; Foreign Countries; Case Studies; Surveys; Measures (Individuals); Scores; Facilities; Hygiene; Athletics; Housing; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Mannschaftssport; Athlet; Statistische Analyse; Tourismus; Ausland; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Messdaten; Leichtathletik; Unterkunft; Türkei
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to evaluate the service quality of the hotels which are provided sport tourism by athletes according to some variables. The research was conducted with cross-sectional research method as one of the general survey models and relational screening model. Target group of the study also constituted the sample group. This sample was formed of 389 athletes in total as 247 males and 142 females from team sports in Turkish Football, Volleyball, Basketball leagues in years 2016-2017 and individual sports. "Sport Tourism Service Quality Scale" (STSQS) developed by Osmanoglu et al. (2017) was employed as data collecting tool in this study. The scale was formed of 28 items and 5 sub-dimensions as "Sport facilities, a = 0.96," "Staff, a = 0.82," "Entertainment, a = 0.90," "Hygiene, a = 0.85" and "Room quality, a = 0.80." The data was analysed by applying one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey's Post-Hoc test and Pearson Correlation analysis. The level of significance for this study was decided as p<0.05. In conclusion with the study, service quality perception scores of the athletes were established to be high-level at room quality, hygiene and staff sub-dimensions and medium level at sport facilities and entertainment sub-dimensions. It was noted that service quality perception of the individual sports athletes is higher than the team sports athletes at staff and hygiene sub-dimensions (p<0.05). Regarding duration of stay, the mean of the ones that stay for 5 nights and above was observed to be significantly higher than the ones that stay one-two days and three-four days at sport facilities and staff sub-dimensions. Between the sport facilities, staff, hygiene and entertainment sub-dimensions of hotel classification and service quality, a significant distinction was seen in favor of the five star hotels (p<0.05). (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01