Sports industry in Turkey and determination of sports participation profile

The size of production and employment that the sports industry has created in recent years attracts considerable attention. Within the industry, sports requests can be classified as active and passive sports requests. The size of the active and passive participation in sports and the economic value it creates constitute the basic parts of the sport industry that must be assessed for sporting purposes. Exploring sports involvement in a society reveals very important strategies both in terms of understanding the dimensions of the sports industry and in assessing the economic size created and in assessing the attitudes of future generations to sports participation. The aim of this research is to reveal the active and passive participation profile of sports according to selected variables in the cases determined in Turkey scale. The main objective of the research is to determine what determines the active and passive participation of the sports depending on the variables selected in the research process. Variables are grouped in order to assess their impact on sports participation as physiological characteristics, status of spaces, social interaction, psychological-relaxation / stress, economic factors, search for experience, form of participation, search for excitement and cultural items. The absence of research and data defining the profile of sports participation in Turkey reveals the original value of this research. Within the scope of the research, 28 provinces were determined based on the Turkish Statistics Regional Unit Classification and face to face interviews were made with 3555 people. Analysis of the data obtained in the study was made using three different analysis techniques (descriptive statistics, t-test and ANOVA) using SPSS (Statistical Package For Social Sciences) 21.0 package program. It is thought that this research will give a chance to develop sports related policies to individuals and institutions such as sports managers, sports marketing specialists, communication specialists who are working in the field of application as well as contributing to sports literature especially in terms of putting the spore participation profile in Turkey. Moreover, the data obtained as a result of this research will provide an awareness for the universities, private sector, companies and decision makers in the public policy, as well as the understanding of the conceptual structure of the sport industry in Turkey but also the profile of participation in the sport in Turkey.