GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM SPACE
Year:2020 | Volume:9 | Issue:33 |Papers Count:8

One of the models on whihc some countries have focused in the last two decades in order to promote sustainable tourism in arid regions is the discussion of the identity and indigenous structures in tourism that have shaped the tourism phenomenon. Considering the enormous potential of eco-tourism in Miami, it can be effective in developing sustainable tourism. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the tourism of arid cities and its role in sustainable development of Miami. This research is analytical and exploratory with a practical purpose. The population of the study consisted of 384 people and the data collection tools included in-depth interview and questionnaire. The collected responses were extracted and analyzed using PLS structural assumptions. The results of this study showed that the tourism ecosystems of rural areas of Miami except for their infrastructures have influenced its sustainable tourism development. Indigenous structure, indigenous environment, ownership, and management have had significant effect on sustainable tourism development in the understudy areas, but infrastructure with 17. 5% effect could not have significant effect on sustainable development of the areas.

A glance at the evolution of principles for city management and city organization shows that it is not anymore possible to plan without paying attention to collaborative approaches and local scales as it was in the past. In this regard, good urban governance is considered to be an impressive and effective model for the management of the city affairs. In this article the analysis and evaluation of some of the most important indicators of great urban governance, such as "participation, accountability and legality" in the statistical population of the research and their causal relationship with the dependent variable "tourism development" have been investigated. This research is a survey-type one which has been arranged in a descriptive-analytical approach and information has been obtained on the field using a researcher-made questionnaire tool. The statistical population consists of all citizens of Bisotun city. 365 people were assigned based on population sampling method to determine the size of "Cochran" sampling. Then a systematic sampling method was used to distribute the questionnaires among the statistical sample in a completely scientific way. In the next step, after collecting data, data analysis was performed using the SPSS and the Excel software and the evaluation of the variables was investigated by using the Likert scale. The results of the research after the Pearson test and obtained p-value showed that all of the good urban governance indicators, studied in this research, were equal to 0. 000. Also, the Pearson coefficients for participation, accountability, and legality were 0. 254, 0. 310 and 0. 290 respectively. This indicates that the level of good urban governance factors is lower than the average. There is also a significant and direct relationship between participation, accountability and legality with tourism development and therefore, with the reduction of participation, accountability and lawfulness, privilege of the good city governance and tourism development diminishes, and vice versa.

There is a growing need for hotels and hotel groups to apply scientific methods to evaluate health, safety and environmental awareness, the awareness of HSE guests and staff to achieve continuous improvement in the national and global context. In this study, in order to design a model to evaluate the HSE status of hotels using the expert system, in the first step, the effective criteria in the HSE status of the hotel using Delphi technique literature and expert opinions were determined. The hotel's board of directors, interior manager, vice president and chief health and safety officer, as well as influencers were accredited and prioritized as a conceptual model. At this stage, the data collected through questionnaires were analyzed using the SPSS software, version 24. The proposed model consisted of 11 criteria and 38 sub-criteria. Based on the results of the research, the criterion "Qualification and Training of Personnel" with average rating of 9/18 ranked first among the criteria and the sub criterion "Determination of Minimum HSE Training Needs of Employees Using Job" with the mean rating of 30/49 had the first priority among the existing criteria. The proposed template is a management tool for self-assessment of hotels that are at the beginning of the HSE improvement path, and this pattern also facilitates comparability with other leading hotels or hotel groups.

The purpose of this study is to explain the relationship between cultural investment and tourism development in Tehran. This research is a descriptive-survey. The statistical population of the study includes all managers, deputies and experts of Tehran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization who served in one of the affiliated centers of Tehran in 1995-96. The statistical population of the study consisted of 234 managers, deputies and experts of Tehran Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization. The findings of the study indicated that the variables of natural attraction, cultural attraction, man-made attraction and cultural investment had a positive significant relationship (99%) with cultural investment variable in all cases. Also regression analysis for interpreting the prediction rate of development of natural, manmade and cultural attractions by cultural investment showed that the cultural investment would predict 0. 285, 0. 226 and 0. 394 of changes in the development of manmade natural and cultural attractions, respectively while anticipating the culture.

Spatial justice is one of the topics which has become especially important for planners and geographers in recent years. Since urban public services are the constructs of the physical, social, and spatial nature of the city, the unfairness in their distribution has an irreversible impact on the structure and nature of the city, as well as the class separation of the city neighborhoods which has created serious challenges for the city management. By examining the inequalities in the distribution of services and identifying the spatial pattern of injustice at the city level, one can find out which services are in a more inappropriate situation, and which inequalities are more concentrated in the urban areas through this urban management. By consciously acting on the spatial distribution of public services and social benefits, we can reduce the spatial inequality and improve living quality. As the population of Qarchak city is growing, the need for public utilities is increasing too. Therefore, the present study, using descriptive-analytical method, library documents and questionnaires investigated the status of services for the citizens and their distribution in rural areas in the area understudy. Research findings were analyzed using Moran test and Gini method as well as T-test and the results showed that the services and facilities in Qarchak city were not distributed fairly, and also the result of citizens' satisfaction test indicated the inadequate status of these services at Qarchak city level.

In the 21th century, tourism has become the most important factor in connecting people of a society to other communities. Based on the one of the tasks of official diplomacy, one country must convince other countries to send their tourists to that country. Studies show that the tourism industry and tourism diplomacy as the most profitable industries in the world. Due to the political and security view of tourism, the existence of highly centralized government structures has led to low participation of NGOs, so tourism appears to be on the rise. In particular, foreign policy related to tourism in Iran has not received the attention of policymakers and the planning system. The research method was a descriptive-analytical one and the required data were obtained from a set of diplomacy policies, tourism laws and regulations, and other domestic and foreign surveys as well as other related external sources. This study sought to answer this question that what impact NGOs in Iran have on the development of tourism diplomacy. The results of the study showed that tourism in the current situation where widespread sanctions and a resilient economy are the main issues of the country can be achieved with the participation of government and NGOs at an appropriate level.

City as a human environment is under serious threats and this problem is because of increasing importance of stable development of considerations in stable general policies. The main aim of this thesis is distinguishing effective and key parameters, then offer strategies to create urban sustainable pattern and urban development. Therefore, in target regions an analysis performed in order to extract proper indexes for evaluate sustainability and environment quality by using questionnaire, then for sample content we used Cochran Formula, after that descriptive statistical analysis has carried on, socio-economical and physical data analyzed by SPSS and SWOT techniques, finally we concluded that physical indexes has the most effect but social indexes are in acceptable and quite often satisfactory level. It can be stated that physical problems such as old buildings, nonconformity of criteria in constructions, all cause negative effects from this index. On the other hand family relationships between residents, existence of ethnic origins, communications and the memories about previous generations who lived in those areas usually led to an emotional dependency to area that Justifies desirability of social indexes.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the factors affecting the improvement of tourism industry with emphasis on sustainable income development in Ramsar in relation to the two hot springs and cable cars in a descriptive-analytical way. For this purpose, the necessary data were collected through library resources as well as questionnaires and interviews with experts in the field of urban management in Ramsar city. The participants' views were analyzed using the Expert Chase software. The results showed that "management and planning" index of 0. 289 was the most important one in evaluating the main indicators and the indexes of "economic", "security", "amenities" and "cultural and social". They were ranked second to fifth with weights of 0. 284, 0. 240, 0. 100 and 0. 087, respectively. Therefore, it can be concluded that the role and importance of planning in tourism industry is such that, despite the provision of all indicators in the absence of a plan which does not clearly illustrate the prospects of the tourism industry, the availability of financial and welfare assistance to the tourism industry in the city and also the security of the tourists will not be provided.