Geotourism
Ali Panahi; Alireza Satari
Abstract
Suitable climate is a natural resource and economic wealth for tourism. It also can be considered as an element which provides some attractions for tourists and thereby can increase the number of tourists and satisfaction. All climate elements are involved in the health, comfort, entertainment and tourist ...
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Suitable climate is a natural resource and economic wealth for tourism. It also can be considered as an element which provides some attractions for tourists and thereby can increase the number of tourists and satisfaction. All climate elements are involved in the health, comfort, entertainment and tourist attraction, but some elements such as temperature, relative humidity, sunshine and wind are more important which were studied in this article to indicate the effect of thermal comfort in Tourism attraction in the cities of the Sabalan hillside, which due to their geographical position can be considered as a valuable potential for the development of tourism. This research was a descriptive – analytic one and data collection was done through a library method. In this study, the data and climatic data were collected during the period of 1981-2010 to study the tourism potentials in the Sabalan region. Tourism climate index TCI (Mieczkowski) was used to analyze the data, this index shows climate Tourism for each month of the year in the form of numerical and descriptive index. The results showed that the months of June, July, August and September due to providing best welfare conditions for tourism were the ideal ones. The months of January, February, March, April, November and December had low importance and were in acceptable level but were not so good for tourists. The months of May and October had average conditions for tourism activities. Overall, the best months of the year, June and September and worst months were December, January and February for tourism activities in the cities of the Sabalan hillside.
Geotourism
M. Taghvaei; fatemeh jalalian
Abstract
Evaluation of climate comfort and the suitable days for recreational walking in urban areas is a significant aspect of successful planning aimed at promoting the urban tourism industry. Khuzestan is a vast province in Iran with very high tourism potentials as well as climatic variety, and can be regarded ...
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Evaluation of climate comfort and the suitable days for recreational walking in urban areas is a significant aspect of successful planning aimed at promoting the urban tourism industry. Khuzestan is a vast province in Iran with very high tourism potentials as well as climatic variety, and can be regarded as a tourism pole in Iran. This study aims to use the Equivalent Physiological Model for determining the number of climate comfort days in Khuzestan Province. To this end, the mean values of the daily data provided by eight synoptic meteorological stations during a ten year period (2000-2009) were used. Four meteorological factors were considered: dry air temperature, relative humidity, cloudiness, and wind velocity. The following cities were studied: Abadan, Ahvaz, Behbahan, Dezful, Iezeh, Masjed-e Soleiman, Ramhormoz, and Shustar. Upon feeding the mean data obtained for these cities to Rayman, the number of climatically suitable days for recreational walking in each city were determined. Upon taking into account the periods with negligible high- and low-temperature stresses, the output obtained from the computer model indicated that Iezeh with 168 climate comfort days was the most suitable city for accomodating tourists; followed by Masjed Soleiman (139 days), Ahvaz (130 days), Shushtar and Abadan (128 days), Behbahan (124 days), Ramhormoz (119 days), and Dezful (116 days). The results also showed that between late November and late March, Khuzestan Province would generally provide climatically favorable conditions for the visiting tourists.
