Sport Motivation and Decision to Participate in Tahura Trail Running Race V Gaffar, O Ridwanudin, D Inassa
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
Decision to exercise of participants to conduct a sports tourism activity is still low. The event Tahura Trail Running Race is one of big sport events, which is always held annually in Bandung City. The event faces the problem of low interest and participation from inside and outside of West Java. The purpose of this study is to obtain findings about the influence of participant motivation on the decision to join Tahura Trail Running Race. The sample of the study covers 90 respondents, consisting of 32 participants from West Java and 58 participants from outside West Java. The data analysis technique is Multiple Regression. The results show that motivation had an effect on the decision to perform sport. Based on the result of different test, it is known that from among the motivation variables, social dimension is the only that has difference among the participants.
Keywords: Sport Motivation, Decision to Participate, Running Race
