The challenges facing sports tourism for special needs groups in Jordan

Dr. Mohammad Nayef ALsarayreh, Dr. Hisham Ali ALdmour, Dr. Subhi Ahmad Qablan, Maysam Tawfiq Dmethan ALmajali

Volume 12 Issue 3

Global Journal of Human-Social Science

This seeks to identify the challenges facing sport tourism for special groups in Jordan, identify the difficulties and hindrances facing this form of tourism from performing its desired role, and identify the types of discrimination facing it and its consequences affecting its desired role. This study belongs to exploratory analytical studies; it follows the approach of collecting and analyzing data to reach the results, 250 copies of the questionnaire has been distributed, 220 copies has been returned, 20 of them were excluded. So the study utilized 200 copies of the questionnaire for data collection. The study concluded that there is a statistically significant relationship between sports activities of the special needs groups and the process of tourism promotion in Jordan. The study recommended competent authorities to continuously increase interest in sports activities for special needs groups because of their impact on the promotion of tourism in Jordan, and to lift the current positive role of sport tourism programs in particular with regard to the inclusion of sports tourism mainly in tourism programs, and to pay more attention to sports tourism as with the rest of the tourism activities. The Jordanian Government agencies should oversee tourism sport for people with special needs, by sufficiently helping to activate sports tourism for people with special needs in Jordan, and finding legislation and laws to facilitate performing this form of tourism, and increasing government support for tourism.