GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM SPACE
Year:2014 | Volume:3 | Issue:11|Papers Count:8

Tourism is one of the most important activities for the contemporary people and is vital for changes and developments to take place in the World. It changes man’s cultural, economical and political conditions. Having desirable tourism condition is a part of the potential advantages and abilities of this industry. There are different techniques for the assessment of climatic potential in tourist areas. In the current research, the researchers have made an attempt to assess the tourism areas based on tourism climate index. These indexes assess climatic conditions for tourism. In this research, to analyze the statistics of the province’s climatology and pluviometer station, there has been an attempt to use stations which have been under investigation for a period of at least fifteen years.To calculate TCI, monthly maximum average and daily mean temperature, minimum relative humidity, precipitation, total sunshine hours and wind speed were used. This study analyzed stations’ data, trying to use stations which had gathered data of at least fifteen years. Determining TCI in the study area was carried out applying interpolated five important parameters in the raster format and in a linear way. The model was a spatial analyst-raster one. In the annual scale, the results of the research indicated that the area is experiencing different situations; however, the conditions in autumn and winter climate are the most suitable compared with those in other seasons. And the end of spring to the mid of summer conditions are the most desirable.

The development of tourism industry has changed it into one of the advantageous areas of economy. Planners and executives of macro economy have made use of this advantage to plan and run their approaches. One of the basic approaches in this industry is to focus on holy defense tourism. Our country faced with an unfair war in the late 20th century, so it has good potentials to accept native and foreign tourists who like to visit the war fronts and the remains of this holy defense against Saddam. Accordingly, the present study has focused on this issue using a descriptive design. The used instrument was a researcher – made questionnaire through which the necessary data were gathered. The obtained results indicated that nostalgic and cultural factors were reported to be the main reasons of visiting the mentioned areas. Most of the participants of the study have affirmed that this tourism will have a high status in future. The main barriers which threat this type of tourism include lack of knowledge and planning for it. Not having comprehensive museums, appropriate memorials, illustrations, and warriors’ memories, considering the apparent issues while sending Rahian- e- Noor caravans to the war areas, bad interpretations of warriors, not introducing the goals of warriors and martyrs, not attending to the war areas to preserve the remains of war, and finally relating the deployments to government affairs are also among the other barriers against holy defense tourism. The present study analyzes the previous status of the imposed war in Iran before referring to its obtained results.

The tourism industry is one of the most attractive and important activities in the world today. This Industry is referred to as the engine of development. Because of the importance of socio-economic factors, this industry has taken more attention and the governments have focused on the industry much more. In addition to care of income and employment, education is a very important issue in this context.Iran, with special natural characteristics of ecotourism, is susceptible to attract international eco-tourists, but there’s obstacles and problems in the Iran’s ecotourism industry which add to its degradation and diminish the quality of nature and natural– synthetic effects which have eventually led to a decrease in attraction for local and foreign tourists and as a result sustainable development of the industry has been faced with interruptions and disorder. One of the effective factors is lack of proper education.The ultimate goal of the present study was to identify the goals of environmental education, to develop practical solutions to environmental education, to determine the educational priorities, to suggest proposals for the implementation of environmental education courses and also to review and repair the courses. The method used in this research was descriptive, analytical which analyzed the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities in this field, using a SWOT model of strategic planning.

Kermanshah province is one of the areas which was destroyed during the war and has not been developed well after the war. One of the potentials of this city is in the area of tourism. The province has a lot of potentials like historical, natural, religious, and humanistic areas. These potentials can be positively used in tourism development. Taq- e- bostan which is a natural place is located in the southern part of the Taqbostan Mountain. The services provided by this area are mostly financial which are hard to satisfy. The reason is that the area does not have any financial income but it possesses some advantages like increasing life quality and recreation opportunities. In the present study, this area as a tourist center has been analyzed and the cost of travelling to this area has been estimated. The results showed that variables such as age, literacy, and income level of the participants have a significant effect on the rate of visiting this area. The analysis of the income level of the tourists showed that there is a significant correlation between their income levels and the number of visiting day of the area. The obtained results were like those of the United States parks. The results showed that education level of the visitors also had a significant role in tourist attraction in the area as most of them were literate and educated people. Education highly correlates with income level as there is a significant correlation between education and the desire of visiting interesting sights. Some studies showed that the tourist centers were more attracted by teenagers and young people, however, this study confirmed that 48% of the visitors to the park were between the ages of 20 to 35. The income obtained from visiting Taq- Bostan Park was estimated to be 78704248 tomans. Totally, the obtained results indicate the need for more attention towards tourism development and developing parks as efficient means of planning and developmental management.

Luxury tourism is a growing new concept in tourism literature of developing world. This concept defines new ways of approaching the higher social classes’ needs using top luxury facilities and services in a way that cannot be achieved by every person. This branch of tourism plays an essential financial role in developing the market of tourism and offers great numbers of job opportunities.Luxury tourism can be established here in Iran but in its own unique form which is a combination of luxury and simplicity. In this kind of tourism, the main issue is how the tourist can receive high quality services and how he/ she will be treated as a special guest. In Iran statistics shows a meaningful growth in luxury needs and facilities to satisfy this need. In this research we found out that luxury tourism has minimum side effects on local society and can generate great economic and financial activities.

Today, because of rushing a large number of tourists to cities, urban tourism has a significant role in different fields of tourism. Urban increasing development causes urban areas to become major centers of population and activities, services, trades, productions, consumptions, and places to live. Despite the facilities offered by cities, uses of services for tourists have limitations that make them difficult to access. Access is one of the most important characteristics of a good city. Access can be divided into different forms such as access to work, goods and resources, facilities and finally access to information. The present study focused on assessing the tourists’ desirable access to tourism services in Tabriz. In order to assess the dispersion and spatial distribution of urban tourism elements, the marginal utility of urban tourism in the Tabriz has been studied too. The research method was analytical and descriptive. To fulfill the study, ten zones of Tabriz as well as some domestic and foreign tourists were selected. To achieve the marginal utility of each region the AHP and TOPSIS models were used. In order to determine the distribution of land uses in the city, the five-fold model was used which involves average nearest neighbor, K Coefficient, spatial autocorrelation, kernel density, coefficient G. Finally, for determining the accessibility of tourist accommodation Eucliden Distance functions of Spatial Analysis model and Service Area Network Analysis model were used. The results of the analysis indicated that zones 9 and 7 included undesirable access, while zones 6 and 5 had relatively poor access. Th results also showed that zones of 10 and 3 had average availability, while zones 1 and 4 were located in the less desirable access and finally zones 2 and 8 were in the desired position.

Lordegan area has comparative advantages for the benefit of the environment and tourism. The aim of this study was to identify tourism potentials, attractions and problems in Lordegan area using SWOT model and to provide strategies for tourism development and promotion of economic, social, cultural and physical issues in this area. Data collection was done using documentary and field studies. Applied researches, as well as descriptive and analytical methods were used to analyze the data. The result of research shows that the tourism sector in Lordegan has great potential to attract tourists who are involved in the development of this county. The county has a lot of potentials; however, it couldn’t attract tourists and if attracted, they were not able to maintain their interest. This is due to the city' s tourism facilities. Research of developing tourism industry in this county suggests issues such as scientific planning, investments, restructuring tourism potentials and attractions in this county through public and private investments for tourism development in the county and also economic, social, cultural and physical development in the county and thus approaching sustainable development.

Climate is one of the effective factors of tourism which has a significant role in selecting the place and time of tourism. While selecting tourism destination, tourists consider the time with the best climate comfort time of tourism.Tourism planners and experts also pay much attention to the tourism spatial and temporal planning as well as the climate comfort in order to leave a happy memory for the tourists.In this study, the spatial-temporal distribution of tourism climate comfort was prepared using the climate data of Isfahan and its sister cities through applying models of physiological equivalent temperature (PET) index.The results of this study showed that among the city of Isfahan and its sister cities, the city of Baalbek with eight acceptable months has the best conditions in terms of tourism comfort climate and Kuala Lumpur with only one acceptable month is in the lowest place.Among the months of the year, April and May with ten acceptable cities have the best conditions and January, February, March, August and December with only four acceptable cities have the worst conditions.