Hainan Sport Tourism Development—A SWOT Analysis

Main author: Dong, Erwei
Other authors: Fu, Bing
Li, Yuntan
Jin, Jianing
Hu, Hengyu
Ma, Yajing
Zhang, Zecheng
Xu, Qianwen
Cheng, Zhu
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description Hainan, as a popular tourism destination, is well-promoted by the Chinese central government. In particular, both central and local governments encourage Hainan’s sport tourism-related professionals to develop sport tourism as one of the most important tourist activities in Hainan. However, previous research has not reported on Hainan’s sport tourism strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as a tourism destination or a sports event host. This study uses SWOT analysis to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the context of Hainan’s sport tourism development. A total of 12 dimensions, including branding, culture, finance, infrastructure, location, market, nature, policy, product, specialty, sustainability, and tourist were generated from our data analysis. In addition, a total of five future directions, including emphasizing event-oriented sport tourism, prioritizing sport motivation, identifying major sport tourism markets, making the rational use of sport tourism resources, and nurturing sport culture, are recommended as a result of this study.
format Journal Article
author Dong, Erwei
author_facet Dong, Erwei
Fu, Bing
Li, Yuntan
Jin, Jianing
Hu, Hengyu
Ma, Yajing
Zhang, Zecheng
Xu, Qianwen
Cheng, Zhu
authorStr Dong, Erwei
author_letter Dong, Erwei
author2 Fu, Bing
Li, Yuntan
Jin, Jianing
Hu, Hengyu
Ma, Yajing
Zhang, Zecheng
Xu, Qianwen
Cheng, Zhu
author2Str Fu, Bing
Li, Yuntan
Jin, Jianing
Hu, Hengyu
Ma, Yajing
Zhang, Zecheng
Xu, Qianwen
Cheng, Zhu
title Hainan Sport Tourism Development—A SWOT Analysis
publisher MDPI
publishDate 2022
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/38270/