Challenges and opportunities of sports industry during the covid-19 pandemic

  1. Hossein Abdolmaleki 1
  2. Sardar Mohammad 2
  3. Manuel Alonso-Dos-Santos 3
  4. Fernando García-Pascual 4
  1. 1 Islamic Azad University
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    Islamic Azad University

    Borūjerd, Irán

    ROR https://ror.org/0265k0q35

  2. 2 University of Kurdistan
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    University of Kurdistan

    Sanandaj, Irán

    ROR https://ror.org/04k89yk85

  3. 3 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

  4. 4 Universitat de València
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    Universitat de València

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/043nxc105

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Revista:
Journal of Sports Economics & Management

ISSN: 2340-7425

Año de publicación: 2022

Número: 12

Páginas: 41-67

Tipo: Artículo

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Otras publicaciones en: Journal of Sports Economics & Management

Resumen

This paper aims to analyze the role of the Iranian sports industry, in the face of COVID-19, and how it faces the possibility of renewing itself and becoming a reference sector within the country's economy. The method of this research is qualitative-quantitative, and the method of data collection is the Delphi method. There are multiple social damages that have been obtained with the Corona virus, and it is the fitness industry that can help to diminish these obstacles that have arisen. Findings show that in this pandemic context, areas such as sports clubs, as well as the organization of sporting events or sport facilities, among others, are most at risk. Accurate identification of the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on the sport industry can lead to the process of adapting the sport industry's activities to the current situation and prepare sport managers and society to cope with similar events in the future. This paper tries to provide strategies to the fitness sector, both economic and social, in the face of the exceptional health situation that the world has experienced. Strategies such as subsidies, promotion of sports culture, etc

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