DETERMINANTS OF CHAMPIONSHIP ATTRACTIVENESS OF POPULAR EVENTS IN BURKINA FASO: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF BIOTOPE, BIOCENOSIS, AND MEDIA ON THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

Authors

  • Mamadou Kiékiéta Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India, University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
  • Théophile Bindeouè Nassè Universite Aube Nouvelle /Universite Saint Thomas D'Aquin / University for Development Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51594/ijmer.v2i1.96

Keywords:

Football, Championship, Attractiveness, Marketing, Sports

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the attractiveness of the popular events in Burkina Faso such as the national championship of football. In the West African context in general, and particularly in Burkina Faso, there are some challenges in the national Championship of football and this study concern is to bring out some solutions to the football issues in the Burkinabe context. There are two (2) approaches in this study. The first approach is a qualitative one. The second approach is a quantitative one. Qualitative data is collected by the mean of a digital recorder through semi-structured interviews and transcribed by hand. Quantitative data is collected by the means of a questionnaire and data is analyzed using Sphinx IQ2. The results show that the Burkinabe national championship attractiveness is strongly related to the biocenosis attractiveness, the biotope attractiveness, the media choice and the media impact.

Published

2020-03-06 — Updated on 2020-06-21

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