GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM SPACE
Year:2015 | Volume:4 | Issue:13|Papers Count:8

One of the most important economic factors in every society is the level of production and growth trend as a measurable index. This index influences various issues such as potential tourism, providing new job opportunities, development of infrastructure, attracting foreign tourists, increasing demand for local goods, and increasing export and FDI. For this reason economic growth must be taken into serious considerations. Given the significance of the problem, this study investigated the tourism effect on the economic growth in Iran and Turkey using methods of estimating long-term comparison. The obtained results showed that long term tourism had positive effects on economic growth in Iran however the effect was small and insignificant in Turkey.

To create a comprehensive and sustainable development, as well as alternative sources of income to replace oil resources requires the use of all our facilities. Tourism is an important element in the economic and cultural composition of the country. In this article, the development of tourism economy and growing phenomenon that economists call it “the third significant factor” after oil and automobile industry was regarded as the basic requirement of the country. The understanding of the prospects for tourism in the province and the problems and obstacles to tourism using ANP method in this province were considered as a major issue on the agenda of this study.

Weather condition is one of the effective factors in tourists’ health and comfort. Nowadays studying weather and climate affects life, health and comfort. It is surveyed in form of a scientific branch named “Human Biology Climatology”. Accordingly several indicators have been designed and provided which are still widely used today in studies related to human biology and meteorology. Human biology climatology has provided proper digital indicators for assessing combined effects of climatic elements on tourists and determining environmental comfort. One of the instances of these factors is temperature-physiology composite indicator based on the energy balance of human body which has a special role in human biology climatology studies. On the other hand, each geographical place has its own unique climate. Geographical features of the place are the other effective factor on the climate of any region. The effects of environmental factors on climatic elements have caused increasing use of statistical techniques in climatic surveys and the proper application of these techniques has made modeling and local changes simulation of climatic elements possible; although no study has been made for identifying relationships among environmental variables and comfort climate changes up to now. Area topography and changes in altitude of the area are of the most effective factors on the climate; hence this study using a causal relationship deals with the regression equations of height survey and Kohgilouye Boyer Ahmad region comfort climate based on DEM. In order to do the study, thirteen weather stations of the area in a 30-year period were used and PET& PMV indicators were applied. Topographic and geographic variables were also extracted by applying the topographic maps of the area. Correlation coefficients between geographic, topographic variables, and the climate comfort zone were also calculated and statistical results indicated that climate comfort had developed under the effect of topography. The research results also showed that geographical height is of the most effective local factors in comfort climate, where comparison of the achieved results represents the height impact on comfort climate.

Nowadays, tourism industry plays a critical role in economic and cultural development of countries so that it has been called “invisible export” by some economists. Iran has enormous potentials for cultural tourism especially cultural and religious ones. Cultural landscape represents cultural and natural values that are rooted in man’s interactions with the nature during the past history. In addition, the cultural landscape encompasses memory, identity, and history of the region and its residents. There is need, thereby, to preserve the cultural landscape and its values. Horaman region, in which Pirshaliar tomb and pertinent customs are seen as cultural landscape and identity, is located near mountains, springs, and woods. In fact, all holy places of ancient Iran, especially Zoroastrian holy places, are usually located close to mountains, springs, and woods. This reality may be a hint of naturalistic roots of Iranian ancient beliefs, which in turn were rooted in their belief in nature’s gods. The present study is aimed to find the factors effective in the development of motivation among the tourists in light of the aspects of cultural-religious tourism. Recent years have been featured with great emphasis and success in developing tourism in Horaman region. For data gathering, a researcher-designed questionnaire was developed to determine the main factors effective in motivating the tourists. During six days, 340 questionnaires were filled out by randomly selected participants in presence of the researchers. The results showed that despite the existence of economic problems and the long way journey, cultural-religious tourism is still strong and attracts tourists from different age groups and educational levels.

To arrive at an all-inclusive and sustained development and to replace oil resources with the new resources of fund-raising, we need to utilize all the potentialities. In the same vein, tourism industry, regarded by the economists as the third dynamic economic phenomenon inside the country (with the first and second ones as petroleum industry and car factories respectively), is a vital trend in the development of the country. Taking the cultural and religious considerations of the country into account, however, one of the best options in obtaining tourism income is the issues of ecotourism and geotourism. Thus, studying the regions suitable for developing such kind of tourism is of utmost importance. This study, therefore, sets out to investigate the geomorphic features of Taftan Area and their contributions in developing tourism in Iran. The research employs a prolong Model to examine the mentioned features. Six locations from among all the geomorphic regions of Taftan were sampled for analysis and for each of them some records were kept. The data analysis revealed that the region is rich in potentialities for tourist attraction. The six places are significant in that they possess high levels of beauty and science criteria. Factors such as insecurity, access difficulty, distance from densely populated areas, and lack of attention to geoturism are some of the reasons for a decrease in the totality of criteria. Thus, Taftan Peak enjoys the highest geotourism criteria, with its tourism criterion averaging 0.63 and with its productivity value of about 0.75.

Khorramabad central district is the most important one in terms of certain cultural, historical and environmental values. This research sought to consider whether Khoramabad stable development based on urban tourism, regarding various potentialities, has the potential to develop tourism while reviving and empowering itself to expand some parts of Khorramabad as a province center. In this paper, after defining and determining the Khoramabad city center zone, the researchers studied the properties and requirements while focusing on the determined purpose, strategies and given polices, and proved that these factors would provide the opportunity to strengthen the tourism at city center.

Tallesh County has lots of natural landscapes and ecotourism attractions. Some of the most important of them are Caspian Sea beaches, Hirkanian forests and Tallesh Mountains. Nowadays, the vast parts of these tourism attractions are being destroyed because of improper operation and inaccurate management and exploitation, due to lack of spatial planning laws and principles. Whereas the first step for economic planning is identifying resources, capabilities and limitations. The main aim of this study was to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats affecting the growth of ecotourism of Tallesh County. The sub purpose was specifying ecotourism access routes in this county. This study was based upon descriptive – analytic method and the necessary data were collected using library and survey methods. The results indicated that according to the SWOT, ecotourism growth strategies of Tallesh County were W-O and W-T strategies and Ecotouristic access routes in this county consisted of five ways of rural area of Hashtpar, Asalem, Seasides, Haviq, and Lysar.

Tourism development is an important factor for economic growth and it should be realized through appropriate methods and ways. Health tourism and medical tourism are of the major opportunities for tourism development in Iran. Beautiful nature, hot springs; mineral water are the capabilities of Iran. In this paper, first, health tourism and medical tourism were defined and then Health Tourism’s subcategories were noted. History of medical tourism in Iran was also reviewed. Iran's position on medical tourism, and Iran' s share of medical tourism was examined. Iran's capabilities in health tourism were listed, after that the role of hot and mineral water in the health tourism was analyzed. Also in the present article historical background of hot and mineral water in the world and Iran was reviewed. Iran's capabilities in different geographical areas, including: Ardabil, Mazandaran, Sistan and Baluchestan, Eastern Azarbaijan, Kerman and some other cities were expressed. The results indicated that Hydrotherapy, hot springs and mineral water in Iran require more attention and investment and as a result are able to play an important role in tourism development.