Geotourism
Mohammadrahim Rahnama; Mahdi Abdolahzadeh
Abstract
In this research, factors influencing the advancement of local participation culture in tourism development planning in Maku free zone were evaluated.Research method used was descriptive – analytical and practical. The population studied in this research includes people living around Maku free ...
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In this research, factors influencing the advancement of local participation culture in tourism development planning in Maku free zone were evaluated.Research method used was descriptive – analytical and practical. The population studied in this research includes people living around Maku free zone with 183,453 persons, among whom 383 persons were chosen based on Cochrane formula. To gather data for the present study, questionnaire was used which is designed based on 38 questions (4 general questions, and 34 special questions); and to determine its validity and reliability, content validity and Cronbach''s alpha coefficient were used. Obtained alpha was 0.824. The Sample population was selected through simple random sampling, cluster sampling and Stratified sampling. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (methods such as regression and path analysis) were used. Based on the results obtained from path analysis and conceptual model test, empowerment of local communities resulted in the strengthening of local social capital, and high level of social capital leads to the increase in local participation culture in planning and development of tourism. Furthermore, comprehensive planning of tourism development provides legal framework for the strengthening of social capital and persuasion of investment in social capacity, and facilitates empowerment of local community.
Mohammadrahim Rahnema; Mostafa Amirfakhriyan
Volume 16, Issue 41 , November 2012, , Pages 129-152
Abstract
Travel agencies have an important role in the development of the tourism. Now the important parts of the development of tourism are related to travel agencies activities. Due to this, in our country so far, few studies have been done in this regard. Mashhad metropolitan, with 20 million pilgrims in each ...
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Travel agencies have an important role in the development of the tourism. Now the important parts of the development of tourism are related to travel agencies activities. Due to this, in our country so far, few studies have been done in this regard. Mashhad metropolitan, with 20 million pilgrims in each year is a sample. There are 222 travel agencies. Factors affecting the travel agencies distribution were done by the spatial distribution models, such as center median, standard distance, Moran index of spatial autocorrelation and regression. Results show that: Level development zone, near the railway station, bus terminal and the holy shrine are important factor in distribution of travel agencies. Coefficient calculated for these variables are set equal to 0.78 (R2 = 0.78).
