Spanish sport facilities: differences between public and private, and according to their business model

Spain boasts numerous multipurpose sports facilities offering a wide range of services. The goal of this study is to ascertainpossible differences in management variables or indicators across sports facilities according to whether they are publicly or privatelyowned and according to business model (...

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Autores: Santacruz Lozano, José Antonio|||0000-0003-1733-6195, Espada Mateos, María, Clemente Remón, Ángel Luis|||0000-0002-8326-206X, Jiménez-Beatty Navarro, José Emilio|||0000-0001-8097-3547
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Alcalá (UAH)
Repositorio:e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/50414
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50414
https://dx.doi.org/10.47197/retos.v0i39.74842
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Gestión deportiva
Administración de empresas
Marketing deportivo
Sports management
Business administration
Sports marketing
Deportes
Sports
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Sumario:Spain boasts numerous multipurpose sports facilities offering a wide range of services. The goal of this study is to ascertainpossible differences in management variables or indicators across sports facilities according to whether they are publicly or privatelyowned and according to business model (administrative license, non-low-cost private, or low-cost private). The universe of study were4435 Spanish sports facilities (IHRSA, 2016). The represetative sample that participated in the study was 384 sports facilities. Datawas gathered by means of face-to-face interviews with sports facilities managers. The results show significant differences for most of thevariables analysed (surface area, number of users, income from quotas, extraordinary income, total income, monthly income per customerand average monthly quota) between public and private sports facilities and between business models. The study provides relevantinformation for people are working in the management of sports facilities, since it allows them to perform benchmark and know what aretheir points of improvement in the management of sports facilities depending on their ownership and its business model.