Geotourism
malihe golzadeh; mostafa mirabadi
Volume 23, Issue 67 , April 2019, , Pages 287-307
Abstract
Tourism and sport are considered one of the largest industries in the modern world, one of the most amazing services in the world, called Sports Tourism, and has many people around the world (Ayami Rad, 2010: 52). Sport tourism is considered one of the fastest sectors of tourism and has created a very ...
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Tourism and sport are considered one of the largest industries in the modern world, one of the most amazing services in the world, called Sports Tourism, and has many people around the world (Ayami Rad, 2010: 52). Sport tourism is considered one of the fastest sectors of tourism and has created a very strong competition among countries due to high incomes. Different countries are considering attracting this kind of tourism considering the type of tourism in the region and providing better facilities. . In this regard, the city of Tabriz is regarded as one of the most important provinces of the country due to its strategic location, such as having common areas with Azerbaijan, Armenia, Nakhchivan and Turkey. Climate diversity and topography with different perspectives (mountains, plains and deserts) have made this province one of the most important poles with a high potential for tourism and sport tourism in 2018, as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in the 9th Conference of Ministers of Tourism of Islamic Countries Selected Tabriz as the Capital of Tourism of the Islamic Countries in 2018. Obtaining this title for the city of Tabriz and the country of Iran provides an opportunity due to the existence of various historical and historical monuments and tourism, as well as various indigenous and local sports and a long history of these sports by introducing these potential fields. Provides development of tourism and sport tourism by expanding national and international interactions. Sports that do not require much facilities and at the lowest cost can be provided by various people (children, youth, adults and even elderly) due to the many attractions that it has in the form of festivals, competitions and sports events, The tourists will attract a lot of sports from different cities, even by creating necessary platforms from different parts of the world to these festivals and competitions. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to study and analyze the current and future status of local indigenous games in the prosperity of tourism, especially sport tourism. Tabriz city.
Geotourism
hassan esmaeilzadeh; Mostafa Haraeeni Haraeeni; mehrdad bahrami
Volume 22, Issue 66 , January 2019, , Pages 1-21
Abstract
Tourism is a service industry which is mainly affected by the quality of services. Moreover, it can be stated that quality of services and tourists satisfaction are important factors in tourism planning, getting to which may help develop tourism. In this study it is intended to evaluate satisfaction ...
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Tourism is a service industry which is mainly affected by the quality of services. Moreover, it can be stated that quality of services and tourists satisfaction are important factors in tourism planning, getting to which may help develop tourism. In this study it is intended to evaluate satisfaction level of tourism from the quality of catering services in Darakeh restaurants in Tehran based on SERVQUAL model. Research method is based on a descriptive-analytic method in this study. In this study library documents and filed studies (including observation, interviewing, and questionnaire) were data gathering tools. Data reliability was assessed by calculating Cronbach alfa to be 0.826 and data validity was assessed using content validity method (according to dear professors). Descriptive and inferential statistical tests (Wilcoxon and Pearson tests) were used for data analysis. Study statistical society included tourists who have used services of Darakeh restaurants and sample size was calculated using Cochran formula with random sampling. Results of study based on five qualities of service dimensions of SERVQUAL method, showed that highest and lowest gaps are observed in empathy dimensions with 0.77 quality difference and tangibles with 0.08 quality difference, respectively. Additionally, the relation between level of education and different dimensions of quality of services were assessed by means of Spearman Correlation Coefficient and a negative significant relationship was observed between income level and overall quality of service at 99 percent level.
Geotourism
mohsen tavakoli
Volume 22, Issue 66 , January 2019, , Pages 117-139
Abstract
Zoning is a technique for minimizing damages of protected area, by which we can delay damage time and cater for opportunities to make necessary decisions. This research aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the Fuzzy-AHP model for zoning national natural monuments in Dehloran in Ilam province. To ...
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Zoning is a technique for minimizing damages of protected area, by which we can delay damage time and cater for opportunities to make necessary decisions. This research aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of the Fuzzy-AHP model for zoning national natural monuments in Dehloran in Ilam province. To do so, all factors including slope, aspect, topographic map, soil texture, vegetation type, sediment condition, erosion type, land use, geology map, and wildlife map which were taken into account. In this study, Fuzzy-AHP method and GIS have been used for ecological assessment. Analysis and evaluation of modeling has been done based on raster layers and with the amount of Gama by 0.9 for the final layer Zonation map showing 5 zones including core zone with the area of 192.3 hectares (13 %), buffer zone with the area of 829.8 hectares (56%), expanded recreation zone with the area of 371.8 hectares (25%), intensive recreation zone with the area of 3.9 hectares (0.3%) and multilateral uses zone with the area of 86 hectares (5.7%). Buffer zone has the highest area of the region and plays as a protection belt around core zone and will reduce all kinds of damages.
Geotourism
farzad veisi; chnoor nikkhah
Volume 22, Issue 66 , January 2019, , Pages 329-348
Abstract
The purpose of this very research is to analyze the effects of tourism development on the sustainable livelihood and livelihood sustainability of the Uraman region. This research is a functional proposal and is a descriptive survey in terms of collecting data. The Statistical Population is all of Uraman ...
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The purpose of this very research is to analyze the effects of tourism development on the sustainable livelihood and livelihood sustainability of the Uraman region. This research is a functional proposal and is a descriptive survey in terms of collecting data. The Statistical Population is all of Uraman Takht residents which were settled there in 1395. Using the Cochran formula, 351 subjects were selected through the convenience sampling method. In the livelihood approach realm, sources are assorted into five groups; human, physical, financial, natural and social origins which are accessible to household members or they own them. According to the tourism importance in the rural area of Oraman and the effects it has on people's livelihoods, we aim analyze the effects of developing tourism on sustainable livelihood and subsistence stability in Oraman region. The purpose of this research is functional and is based on a survey-descriptive method to collect data. Using Cochran's sample size formula, 351 persons were selected in forms of convenience sampling. The data collection tool in this study is the researcher-made questionnaire. Which includes human, social, financial, natural, and physical dimensions of sustainable livelihoods which it's Reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha by the value of (0.84).The results showed that the tourism has a significant effect on all livelihood origins such as human, social, physical, natural and financial. This study examines the impact of tourism on each dimension using the Friedman test and showed that the greatest impact of tourism on the five dimensions of sustainable livelihood has been on the financial, natural, social, physical and human dimensions, respectively. In general, it can be concluded that tourism has a significant impact on the livelihoods of the Uraman Takht community.
Geotourism
Banafsheh Farahani; jafar bahari; Shahla Bahari; Marjan Bazleh
Volume 22, Issue 64 , September 2018, , Pages 19-33
Abstract
Tourism today is one of the most important and effective economic issues and of the important factors of Outstanding communication, social and cultural in the worldwide is considered. In fact, the expansion of the economic, health, security and communication infrastructure in the twenty-first century ...
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Tourism today is one of the most important and effective economic issues and of the important factors of Outstanding communication, social and cultural in the worldwide is considered. In fact, the expansion of the economic, health, security and communication infrastructure in the twenty-first century has made tourism an inevitable reality in human life (Saghaei and Alizadeh, 2013: 2). Hence, tourism is one of the key industries in any society that can attract planners attention, Because it affects many sectors of society, including the economic, cultural and environmental sectors. On the other, The large volume of travel in recent years has made tourism one of the largest industries in the world (Kazemi et al, 2012: 48), So that the income of tourism and tourist With transportation of passengers in about 17 percent of total world exports make up. Given the growing importance of tourism in today's world and the competitiveness of the tourism market around the world, Tourist destinations are increasingly competing with each other to attract tourists. The expansion of the tourism industry in every part of the world requires special conditions and conditions such as climate, ancient artifacts, natural attractions, traditions, infrastructure, facilities and equipment (Pourahmad et al, 2013: 2). So each of the tourist destinations should try to increase their share of the industry and its revenues. On the other hand, On the other hand, Should be noted in today's competitive world, The first trip to a tourist destination It does not mean the success of tourism destination, It is also a repetition of the trip to the tourist destinations and the introduction and promotion of it for potential tourists, which can serve the purpose of tourism in the long run. Hence, loyalty to the destination of tourism and its influential factors play a significant role in their long-term success. Therefore, efforts should be Loyalty to the destination of tourism and the factors that create this loyalty are identified and strengthened. Given the importance of brand loyalty to tourism destinations, The present study aims to investigate the factors affecting the loyalty of tourists to the tourism destination of Tabriz. Emission reduction of carbon dioxide and its impact on global warming process is one of the most important results in the use of renewable energy sources. In urban areas, solar systems stationed on building roofs are the most appropriate utilization method of stable source of solar energy. Urban compactness is a major urban form parameter that affects the accessibility of solar renewable energy in the built environment, so it is essential that the effects of urban compactness on buildings utilization of solar energy, be surveyed. The aim of this study is the evaluation of solar energy potential in urban areas and determination of the relation between urban compactness indicators and solar energy potential in the local scale. In this study, the annual solar radiation modeling for each of the building surfaces of the study area, over one year period, was performed using the Solar Analyst model. On the other hand, the relation between various compactness indicators including site coverage, plot ratio, volume-area ratio, Entropy, population density and building density with Annual solar radiation received by the study area was explored and using least squares regression model, the relationship between the solar radiation and urban compactness indicators was determined. Also potential of using two types of active solar systems including Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems (PV) and Solar Thermal Collectors (STC) was evaluated. According to the results, the annual solar irradiation increase from 507 (in compression areas) to 741 (in scattered areas) Kilowatt hours per square meter. Volume-area ratio shows the highest determination coefficient, R2 equal to 0/805 with annual solar radiation. Also in the study area, the building roofs potential for the development of PV systems much more than STC systems, influenced by the degree of urban compactness.
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
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.
Geotourism
Seyed Hadi Tayebnia; Sirous Ghanbari
Abstract
One of the strategies that in most developing countries for economic and cultural development are considered, the development of tourism in deprived areas with potential for tourism development.Due to this, planning is essential in various aspects of tourismand identify suitable areas for tourism in ...
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One of the strategies that in most developing countries for economic and cultural development are considered, the development of tourism in deprived areas with potential for tourism development.Due to this, planning is essential in various aspects of tourismand identify suitable areas for tourism in terms of climatic comfort is important in tourism planning. The aim of this study was estimate the climatic comfort of urban and rural areas of Ilam and Kermanshah and planning for the development of tourism.For this, first survey the tourist attractions of these provinces in the fields of cultural-historical and the natural are actionand then Baker index was used to estimate the climatic comfort.For this purpose, the data required of 8 stations surveyed, in the 20-year period (2013-1993) was extracted and analysis necessary.Finally, for zoning bioclimatic conditions, the data transferred to the GIS software and by using Kriging interpolation, the maps were drawn.The results showed that in 3 monthsonly two stations of Sarpolzohab and Dehloran, in April: stations of Dehloran, Islamabad Gharb, Ilam and Sarpolezahab, In May: the stations of Rawansar, Kermanshah, Kangavar, Islamabad Gharb, Ilam and Sarpolezahab, In June: the stations of Rawansar, Kermanshah, Kangavar and Islamabad Gharb, in July; the stations of Kangavar and Kermanshah, in September and October; Rawansar, Kermanshah, Ilam,Kangavar and Islamabad Gharb and, in November, Dehloran the stations, Kangavar, Islamabadgharb, Ilam and Sarpolezahab, and in December: the stations of Dehloran, IslamabadGharb and Sarpolezahab, Have favorable conditions for urban and rural tourism.
Geotourism
Esmaeil Pishbahar; Rogaye Parcham; Hossin Yadavar
Abstract
This study was performed to investigate the influence of different types of tourism in Aras Free Zone (AFZ). The tool of this research is questioner that data were collected by simple random sampling from 70 tourists and it have been analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The results ...
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This study was performed to investigate the influence of different types of tourism in Aras Free Zone (AFZ). The tool of this research is questioner that data were collected by simple random sampling from 70 tourists and it have been analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The results indicate that there is the correlation between ecotourism and historical tourism. In the other words, an increase in historical tourism increases the ecotourism and vice versa. For increase, historical tourism must increase satisfaction of historical attractions of "Chopan churches", "Caravanserai of KhwajaNazar". For increase, the ecotourism must increase satisfaction of the natural attractions of the "Aras", "Mill Ruins", Villages Ashtbyn", "Plain Gordian" and "Plain Aynalo". The increase of satisfaction of tourists of village "Ashtbyn", satisfaction of tourists from "Holy Muhammad Agha" increases. The only factor affecting the on trade tourism is the satisfaction of variety of goods or in other words to increase the satisfaction of trade tourism must increase the variety of goods. Therefore, restoration of historic and religious buildings and development projects, business tourism, natural and historical and policies encouraging exports and imports in Aras Free Zone is proposed
Geotourism
M. Taghvaei; fatemeh jalalian
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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 ...
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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.
Geotourism
Iraj Teimouri; Hadi Hakimi
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For Iranian citizens traveling to turkey without visa is possible and the main reasons of Iranian citizens for traveling to Turkey are; resting, leisure time, enjoying various attractions like sea side, cultural, trading especially buying clothes and etc. The tourism industry is one of the main driving ...
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For Iranian citizens traveling to turkey without visa is possible and the main reasons of Iranian citizens for traveling to Turkey are; resting, leisure time, enjoying various attractions like sea side, cultural, trading especially buying clothes and etc. The tourism industry is one of the main driving forces of Turkish economy. The increase and decrease of traveler to turkey depends on various factors in both national and international levels. This article wants to forecast the amount of Iranian tourist which traveling to Turkey by using the Artificial Neural Network; (ANN). On the other hand, the present article attempts to attend to explore the importance of used variables in tourism demand to Turkey. The variables effects on Iranians’ tourism demand were extracted by exploring the literature review, and the present research just utilized 13 variables for forecasting the tourism demand. The results of the research showed that accessed estimates had less error in comparison with real data. According to present research, four important variables effect on tourism demand of Iranian citizens are the daily crude oil producing in Iran, inflation volume in Iran, gross domestic product in Turkey, gross domestic product for working people in Iran.
Geotourism
Mahmood Ghadiry; Fateme Hajesmaeeli
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For tourism development, existing of tourist attractions is not enough, but developing of suitable tourist facilities is neccessory. So, according to the importance of tourist facilities in attracting tourists, especially to suburban places, the present study investigate the status of the tourist satisfaction ...
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For tourism development, existing of tourist attractions is not enough, but developing of suitable tourist facilities is neccessory. So, according to the importance of tourist facilities in attracting tourists, especially to suburban places, the present study investigate the status of the tourist satisfaction of tourist facilities in Chak-Chak in Ardakan county. So, 106 number of tourists were selected in Norooz 2013 by Convenience sampling method. To gather data, library method, field method as well as tourist questionnaires were applied. Gathered data analyzed with descriptive (number, frequency, percentage, mean) and quantitative (T-Test, One-Way Anova, Pearson correlation) method. Regarding the first hypotheses, the findings indicated that tourists believe that the status of tourist facilities is very inappropriate in Chak-Chak and tourist satisfaction in all these three dimensions is low and very low; as a result, the first hypothesis was confirmed. The results indicated that the second hypothesis reject relatively, so that the total findings indicated that Chak-Chak tourists’ satisfaction is only significantly different in about religion variable. The results suggested that tourists’ satisfaction is not significantly different in all variables, except job position. To test the third hypothesis, the results of relationship analysis of tourists’ satisfaction and social-economic variables revealed that Chak-Chak tourists’ satisfaction has a significant relationship with all variables (gender, religion and job position) except age. So in general, the third hypothesis was relatively confirmed. In all, low level of tourist satisfaction indicate that the planning system ignored these places, whereas need more attention
Geotourism
Nosrat Moradi; Sayyed Hedayat ollah Noori; Kebreya Moradei; Sheirkoo Pasandei
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Today, tourism is one of the first activities to create job opportunities and earn income in the world; this activity is accelerating and has gained leading status in recent years. Tourism industry is divided in several forms which one of its branches is Agritourism. Agricultural tourism as one of the ...
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Today, tourism is one of the first activities to create job opportunities and earn income in the world; this activity is accelerating and has gained leading status in recent years. Tourism industry is divided in several forms which one of its branches is Agritourism. Agricultural tourism as one of the successful recreational activities has become a suitable alternative for development of rural and undeveloped areas. Identification of tourism susceptible areas is one of the main prerequisites for tourism planning and development. Mahallat township enjoys leading and great attractions include farms and gardens of flower and plant breeding, festival of flower and plant, garden alleys and so on which can make suitable grounds for tourism development. Planning and developing of agritourism in Mahalat township require attention to various aspects of it which tourists satisfaction is the most important one. This study aim to identify affecting factors on agritouists satisfaction level in Mahalat Township which has visited tourism attractions in Shahrivar month. This research is descriptive- analytical and applied one. In this study due to lack of available statistics about tourists, estimated method have been used for determining the sample size and 153 questionnaires were distributed among the visitors at the specific time. To analyze data factor analysis were used. Factor analysis results showed that the highest satisfaction of agritourists belong to agritourism attractions and it’s components such as exhibition and the festival of flowers and plants, garden alleys, farms and gardens of flower and plants breeding, natural landscapes, climate and historical attractions and services factors and it’s components which totally explain 45 percent of variables variance. The lowest agritourists satisfaction belong to advertising and its components as well as infrastructural factor which explain 11 percent of variables variance. Investing in infrastructure supplies and advertising can make positive effect on development of flower and plant tourism in Mahallat township, so it is suggested to focus on said criteria in tourism development plans.
Geotourism
Mohhamadhosen Rezaei moghadam; Mohamadreza Nikjou; Kamran KHalilvalizadeh; Belvasi Imanali; Mehdi Belvasi
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Landslide is one of the natural hazards in mountainous regions that results in huge losses every year. Alashtar Doab watershed with mountainous terrains, uplands and different natural conditions has the potential for landslide. The purpose of this study is landslide hazard zoning using artificial neural ...
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Landslide is one of the natural hazards in mountainous regions that results in huge losses every year. Alashtar Doab watershed with mountainous terrains, uplands and different natural conditions has the potential for landslide. The purpose of this study is landslide hazard zoning using artificial neural network model in Alashtar Doab watershed. In order to preparing the map, first of all parameters of the landslide were extracted and then the layers were prepared and after that a landslide distribution map that was occurred in the basin was prepared and then by combining landslide influencing factors with landslide distribution map, the impact of each of these factors such as slope, aspect, lithology, rainfall, land use, distance from fault and stream in ArcGIS software were measured. In this research, artificial neural network model with error back propagation algorithm and sigmoid activation function was used. The final structure of the network consisted of eight neurons in the input layer, eleven neurons in the hidden layer and one neuron in the output layer. Network accuracy in the testing phase was calculated by 85.93 percentages. After optimization of the network structure, all area information was imported to the network. Based on landslide hazard zoning using artificial neural network model, 37.44, 45.7, 93.8, 49.32 and 76.6 percent of the area at risk is located in very low, low, medium, high and very high classes, respectively.
Geotourism
Mohammadtagi Rahnamayee; Esmaeil Aliakbari; Esmaeil Safaralizadeh
Abstract
Tourism as the largest social movement, associated with cultural, economic and spatial consequences. Therefore, making the more efficient of the tourism development and promoting its positive consequences, it needs to understanding and putting especial attention to the empowerment. The aim of this research ...
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Tourism as the largest social movement, associated with cultural, economic and spatial consequences. Therefore, making the more efficient of the tourism development and promoting its positive consequences, it needs to understanding and putting especial attention to the empowerment. The aim of this research is the study of effective factors on empowerment of the tourism development in West Azerbaijan Province. This study naturally is "descriptive - analytic" and objectively is “applicable" and is in line with answering to this question: Is the empowerment of “local communities (of participation dimension), human resource (the decision makers and planners), and competitiveness of tourism destinations" components effective in empowering of tourism development in the West Azerbaijan province? The statistical populations studied in this research are cultural heritage, handicrafts and tourism experts in the West Azerbaijan province. Due to the expansion of research range and lack of detailed knowledge about the number of population studied, using cluster and randomized sampling method, totally, 100 subjects selected as sample. To analyze the data, descriptive statistical methods was used and to test of research hypothesis in the inferential statistic, the chi-square tests (chi-square) were used. The results showed that empowerment components of the local community, human resources (the decision makers and planners), and competitiveness of tourism destinations have significant relationship with the empowerment of tourism development and among them "empowerment of human resources (the decision makers and planners)" have the most impact on tourism development in West Azerbaijan province.
Geotourism
maryam bayati khatibi; shahram maleki; dorna ghafari; soraya hadi
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Climate as a Geographical phenomenon, have a strong interrelationship With Tourism and development Purposes and goals Tourism. Photo Tourism as a main subbranchs of Tourism, is attended case for countries with suitable climate and with long shine time at all Seasons. Unequal distribution of sun radiation ...
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Climate as a Geographical phenomenon, have a strong interrelationship With Tourism and development Purposes and goals Tourism. Photo Tourism as a main subbranchs of Tourism, is attended case for countries with suitable climate and with long shine time at all Seasons. Unequal distribution of sun radiation on surface of the world is main reason that people travel from high latitude with low shine time to low latitude with long shine time. In this paper is study tourism climate comfort for all seasons of years, by use of TCI index then, is calculated of shine time for all seasons .In this Research in order to zoning of suitable photo Tourism regions of Iran, and also assessment climate comfort tourism at during all seasons at different time of year, is used fuzzy methods and fuzzy Gamma. The suitable climate condition or comport climate is determined by using of fuzzy methods. The results of this study are show that is five regions in maximum and four regions in minimum is exist in suitable photo Tourism of Iran. These regions is represented same property of comfort climate respect and shine time in during time of year. In other term, these regions have very suitable photo Tourism aspect at many time of year.
Geotourism
Esmaeil Nasiri hendkhaleh; Robab Hoseinzadeh; Esmaeel Safar alizadeh
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Abstract Today, tourism development as a profitable activity, in the countries planning, is in priority. But tourism development is needed to infrastructure development. usually in third world countries, focusing tourism infrastructure in major cities and provincial capitals, lads to tourism development ...
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Abstract Today, tourism development as a profitable activity, in the countries planning, is in priority. But tourism development is needed to infrastructure development. usually in third world countries, focusing tourism infrastructure in major cities and provincial capitals, lads to tourism development in big cities, and towns, even villages with high potential which have little interest from its advantages. So identifying development level of cities, in terms of tourism infrastructure can be efficient method to planning for less developed regions. This research method is descriptive-analytical, trying to analyze tourism infrastructure in the cities of west azerbaijan province. To this purpose, 14 variables were selected in the field of tourism infrastructure using factor analysis techniques have been analyzed with SPSS software. Variables declined two influenced factors and finally cities were ranked by resulting scores of combined index, then development levels for each city was identified. The results indicate that, Urmia city in terms of having the infrastructure is in priority, Khoy city is second, and cities of showt and poldasht have been ranked in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth. This Fact indicated that, there is heterogeneity in this province. So that, Urmia city is as quite developed and the city of Khoy and Sardasht, developed and cities of Chaldoran, maku, Mahabad, Salamas, Miandoab, Nagadeh and Bukan are developing, while other cities are underdeveloped. Between the rank of each city in terms of its infrastructure and tourist attractions, there is a positive relationship
Geotourism
Mohammad Khodaverdizadeh; sadegh Khalilian; Babollah Hayati
Volume 19, Issue 52 , June 2015, , Pages 85-111
Abstract
According to change global approach of protected areas management plan in relation to tourist attraction in order to fund this areas, the aim of this study was to determine the Outdoor Recreation value of Saint Stephanus church one of the famous churches of Marakan Protected Area thatlocated ...
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According to change global approach of protected areas management plan in relation to tourist attraction in order to fund this areas, the aim of this study was to determine the Outdoor Recreation value of Saint Stephanus church one of the famous churches of Marakan Protected Area thatlocated in boarder between East and West Azerbaijan Province. Estimating the outdoor recreation value of this church can be effective in foresighting the needs, eliminating the shortages, and developing of tourism. The objectives of this study were to estimate outdoor recreation Value of Saint Stephanus Church with Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) and separation of influential factors on visitors' willingness to pay (WTP) using Heckman two-stage model. Required data was gathered through questionnaires and face-to-face interviews with 321 visitors of the church in 2013. Results showed that 52% of the visitors were willing to pay money for visiting the church. Variables of income, education levels, family size, and sexuality were effective in visitors' WTP acceptance, and variables of income, family size, education level, age and the Visitor satisfaction from amenities were effective in the rates of WTP. The average of WTP and the annual outdoor recreation value of Saint Stephanus Church was estimated at about 2445 Rials and 317 million Rials, respectively. Therefore, with respect to the great importance and value of Saint Stephanus Church from the view point of visitors, will required that planners to have more attention to this area for tourism development and increasing the number of tourists with increasing facilities and the financing of Marakan protected area and other protected areas.
