GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM SPACE
Year:2015 | Volume:4 | Issue:15|Papers Count:8

The development of rural planning requires reviewing the critiques in rural development in such a way that the best approaches in developing these areas can be achieved to obtain effective results. The development of the culture of rural tourism has been considered as an influential stimulus for developing and rebuilding the rural areas. Thus rural tourism has been the focus of attention in Europe to meet the challenges of economic and social developments of those areas. One of the reasons for underdevelopment in Iran can be traced back to the little attention which has been paid to rural tourism. Through enhancing tourism, a lot of the existing problems in rural areas such as the problems of unemployment, economic problems, social cooperation, and even future problems will be removed. Ardestan has a great potential for desert tourism since it has a lot of untouched deserts. The present study has a documentary approach to desert tourism in Ardestan.

Neighborhood as a social and economic identity can meet the daily needs of a city. It possesses a social nature which is the source of facilities and social services. The sustainable economy of the neighborhood, on the other hand, offers the inhabitants as well as the urban managers the opportunity for making use of investment in a given neighborhood which in turns causes providing better social services, decreasing the costs, and finally increasing self-employment costs. In the present study, Babookan was selected as the case of the study since the majority of its areas were devoted to farming and gardens. In this study using an analytical approach the sustainable features of neighborhood were determined. It is predicted that through the use of potentials of the neighborhood in Babookan the area can be strengthened so that it will become a famous tourist center in Isfahan. Also because of the effect of farming on each area, this area can be socially and economically changed through creating job opportunities and opening more shopping places.

The idea of sustainability in tourism is one of the newest and most important issues in prominent countries regarding this industry. In this study using a quantitative and qualitative approach, the researchers organized structured interviews with authorities and common people, questionnaires, and documentaries. From among the 170 people living in the district 22, 150 people were selected randomly. The most important issue about the area is the environment of the area which is potentially sustainable. This item has been marked as the moderate and strong on the questionnaire given to the participants. The ordinary people participating in the study measured this item as moderate. The district 22 has a good condition as far as environment protection, and new tourist attraction are considered, however, there are weaknesses like low potential of trading in the area. The suggestion made by the present researchers is using expert people’s experiences, creating new trading opportunities, and focusing on the people’s active participation.

Nowadays, tourism is considered as one of the sources of income in the world countries. Cultural tourism which has been significantly developed since the late of the 20th century has a special status. Music tourism is one of the important results of cultural tourism which has turned into a successful tourism industry. Iran with its various tribes, each of which owns a specific music style, can be the destination of a lot of tourists. The music of every area is an expression of its people’s internal emotions and behaviors in such a way that the characteristics of the area can be inferred from the type of music played in that area. The purpose of the present article was to analyze Maghami music of Torbat-e-Jam in order to find a way for developing music tourism thereby reviving cultural tourism in this area. Torbat-e-Jam was selected for the study because of its rich Maghami culture. The researchers used a library and analytical study to achieve their purpose. The results of the study indicated that Maghami music can attract tourists to the area. Also tourism can preserve this kind of music and revive this local music which is a subsection of culture in the area. Totally music tourism can preserve and revive local culture in the area.

Nowadays rural development is one of the problems with which countries specially the developing countries and governments face. Rural areas face with a lot of problems although they have lots of natural resources and agriculture. This problem has caused the rural development to be focused by theorizers, planners, and executives more during recent years. One of the beneficial approaches which has been used and has had positive results is the development of rural tourism. The purpose of the present study was to analyze the cooperative management of rural tourism and its role in sustainable development. This library research was meant to analyze the cooperative management in rural tourism. The results of this study indicate that the majority of planning in Iran had been directed towards the urban tourism while ignoring the development of rural tourism. Hence villagers are able to plan better than others. Thus rural areas have the potential to use the available facilities for tourism development and thus have a share to improve cooperative management of rural tourism in their areas.

Tourist is an influential factor in cultural exchanges, dialogue of civilizations, establishing familiarity and intimacy between nations, sharing expertise, development of science and technology for economic and social growth. Considering the tourism performance effect on religious thinking and Islamic beliefs, this article seeks to identify the status of religious tourism sector in Iranian provinces and investigate its impact on province-level economic growth. Hence, based on the latest data on regional accounts published in 2014 by the Iran Statistics Center, this study uses the so-called comparative advantage of religion in provinces of Iran to calculate the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA). The article also deals with the impact of comparative advantage of religion on economic growth during the implementation of the Fourth Development Plan. The results showed that in religious sectors the provinces of Qom, Sistan-Balochestan, Yazd, Kurdistan, Zanjan, Ellam and Khorasan-e Razavi enjoy higher comparative advantage respectively during the government’s Fourth Development Plan. Also, based on the regression the findings did support a positive effect value-added comparative advantage of religious on economic growth in provinces of Iran.

Recycling seems necessary for preserving tourism industry. In fact, through recycling methods tourists can be attracted to intended destinations. Suitable use of tourism potentials requires a comprehensive study and planning. It seems necessary to have a comprehensive and schematic planning to achieve the desired goals. The P4 model is one of the outstanding issues in marketing which can be used as a good model in realizing the intended goals. The combination of four components of the model, namely place, product, price, and promotion, is intended to analyze the number of tourists visiting the area during Nowruz holidays between the years 1389 to 1394 as well as the analysis of the components of marketing in Masooleh historical city. Then the effective components on the increasing number of tourists and tourism development have been determined. To achieve the goals of the study, an experimental and descriptive study has been conducted to analyze the 93 items of a researcher-made questionnaire. The sample of the study consisted of the tourists coming to the area as well as tourism experts who worked in the Cultural Heritage Organization in Gilan province.

The climate phenomenon has a geographical and undeniable relationship with the development of tourism and tourism purposes. To bring so many tourism destinations in the world, an area must have favorable climate. In this study, the indexes of climate, humidity, cloudiness, wind speed, and air pressure in Ahvaz were estimated during a thirty-year period (1980-2010). The results indicated that the major limitation of Ahvaz tourism hot climate is from April to October. Gradual increase in temperature and moisture in humid conditions causes the increase in contact. Humid conditions have been known to reduce the days of peace in Ahvaz from late autumn to the end of the winter. The less relative temperature, relative humidity, the more cloudiness in terms of climate was known to be established in Ahvaz. Naturally, such a time is the best destination for winter tourism. In the third period which includes a seasonal winter, there is an ideal weather condition in the region. During the first and second phases, the weather becomes a little cool, comfortable, and in a relatively fixed condition. During the spring and summer, heat and drought will drop and Ahvaz has the worst climatic conditions for tourism activities. In the autumn, the weather becomes cooler especially during the first period.