GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM SPACE
Year:2019 | Volume:8 | Issue:30 |Papers Count:8

Tourism is very important. Tourists, affected by a series of motives, have different expectations from the travel products the results of which is quite significant in determining the developmental strategies of many destinations. These results familiarize the planners and policymakers with the destinations of tourism its features. Tourism stable development is a set of principles, and managerial ways for determining the tourism development route in such a way that it can guarantee the human welfare and ecosystem health in a long period of time. The main objective of this study was to enhance and strengthen the impact of the cultural aspects of tourism in the province. The research method was descriptive and analytical and the necessary data was collected through questionnaires. The population of this study were tourists visiting East Azerbaijan from whom 276 people were chosen to take the questionnaires. Probability sampling method was used and for testing the hypotheses regression was applied using SPSS software. The results of the study confirmed all of the hypotheses.

Tourism has been known as a human activity in the last five decades and has been characterized by high growth. On the other hand, the development of villages like cities is what planners have meant to achieve. Therefore, the necessity of paying attention to tourism, as a suitable solution for rural development is agreed upon by all experts. This Research aims to evaluate and analyze the effects of tourism on rural economic development in the central part of Noor in Mazandaran Province, including seven rural districts. This Research is of applied nature and the study has been done descriptively and analytically which is a mixed method of library and field studies. The necessary data were mainly qualitative. In the field study, a questionnaire was distributed among the participants whom were selected through simple random sampling method. After the analysis of the collected data using the Excel Software and SPSS, factor analysis method, cluster analysis as well as the TOPSIS technique, the results of the study showed that income generation through tourism has been mostly in domains of selling the agriculture products, tourism services, and local products. Also, according to the results of the study, the village of Abbasa and the Kardikala village have had the most and the least benefits from the tourism industry in the Region respectively.

Today, tourism industry as a social, economic, and cultural phenomenon has been noticed by many countries which has a continious and permanent growth during the past decades. Modern tourism is related to development which follows various purposes. In this process, tourism has a basic role and this is a path where Iran has suitable advantages. The present study which is descriptive, has been conducted using library practices and practical studies and, in addition to identifying strengths, examines the weaknesses of tourism growth in Tabriz. It also examines the potentials and limitations of tourism growth in Tabriz. Using the SPSS software and the results obtained through this software, it focuses on the challenges of urban tourism development in Tabriz which can play an important role in planning the tourism space in proportion with the social, natural, and cultural conditions of the city and using its potentials. It has been found that tourism is positivel correlated with promoting the life standards and people’ s income level especially in developing countries.

One of the strategies which has been noticed by most of the countries of the world and has had positive results, is developing tourism in rural areas. The purpose of the present study has been to analyze the factors affecting the tourists’ satisfaction from rural tourism area in Vanush. The study has been an applied one using a descriptive and analytical method of study. In order to gather the necessary data, the researchers used library and field study (questionnaire and observation). Since the number of tourists was not clear, using the Cochran formula, 180 ones were chosen. The results of the study showed the decrease of 39 variables as far as these eight factors are considered: basic services availability, having facilities in the attracted area, fair costs, socio-cultural personality of the local people, security, health and livelihood, the availability of natural attractions, and cleanliness from which two factors of availability of attractions and basic services availability with a value of 2. 721 and a variance of 16. 39 was known as the most important factor of satisfaction in the village of Vanush.

Nowadays tourism industry is known as the dominant industry of the third millennium. Tourism with its all sub-branches is the strongest, the most persistent, and the least dangerous section which can introduce numerous opportunities for employment and meaningful activities to the world’ s human inhabitants and support the world’ s macroeconomics in a peaceful condition away from environmental dangers and in a stable and developable way. On the other hand, our country is one of the countries which have the great potentials and capabilities of tourism. Therefore, tourism section towards a sustainable development can include a lot of social and economic strategies in an appropriate way. One of the most basic subjects of tourism is related to tourists’ lodgings. Tourists for lodging and meeting their first needs must have a dwelling in an appropriate place. Thus variety and increasing the dwellings in a country can be an indicator of development for that country. It should be investigated that where the status of hoteling in our country especially in Tehran is; how hotels can satisfy the tourists’ needs; and what approaches can improve hoteling industry. Thus the present study have focused on the analyzing the conditions of four and five star hotels in Tehran. Polling the guests of hotels, the present study deals with these questions that what are the roles of hotels in tourism development in Tehran and how they can satisfy their guests. The study can help resolve the shortcomings found in hotels.

The expansion of the tourism industry is one of the main means of development in each region, especially in rural areas. Since tourism mainly involves small businesses, the necessity of the role of tourism entrepreneurs for rural tourism development is obvious; therefore, the encouragement and promotion of entrepreneurship will lead to the development of rural areas. Accordingly, the main objective of this study is to explain the effects of tourism on entrepreneurship development in Gharib-Mahla village of Behshahr. In this study, a combination of descriptive-analytical and causal methods have been used to achieve its goals. The statistical population of the study consisted of all household caregivers living in the village of Gharib-Mahallah, of which 150 were selected as the statistical sample of the study. The main instrument of the research was a researcher-made questionnaire which validity has been confirmed by the experts of tourism and its reliability has been confirmed by pre-test and calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0. 776). The results of the study showed that the significance of the mean numerical difference between the numerical desirability (which is the mean Likert's value of 3) was significant at all levels at the level of 99% and the difference between all the components considered to be desirable. This suggests that the development of tourism in the studied village could play an important role in improving the conditions of entrepreneurship among local residents.

Having a municipal services means, having the citizen's rights, regardless of race, gender, location, and so on while having the privileges of facilities in the city. The ranking of urban districts as far as tourism services are considered, is a criterion to determine the required infrastructure and to adjust the inequality between municipalities. In this regard, prioritizing urban areas which could be an effective framework for distributing services to the users of the tourism industry seems essential. Given the importance of tourism industry and the potential for tourism in Tabriz, to determine the extent of proper planning in various districts of this city in order to provide the citizens with better services and attract tourists seems necessary. For this purpose, using tourism elements in providing urban services was analyzed. The research method was descriptive-comparative and its type is an applied one. The data gathering method is a field-documentary one. Initially, the dispersion of elements in ten districts of the city was evaluated using the Kernel Density Method. Then for ranking the elements based on their importance they were weighed and ranked using the AHP model. In the next step, using the TOPSIS Model the researchers determined the extent to which the districts benefited from the urban tourism services based on the importance of the factors. On the basis of the results of the study, the district 8 with 0. 836523 and the district 7 with 0. 065989 ranked first and last respectively as far as the level of benefiting from urban tourism services was concerned.

Tourism managers in Mashhad claim that the city's tourism planning process is presently emphasizing on the revealed needs rather than expressed needs, and this has increased the satisfaction of tourists in the city. The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of satisfaction with the quality of services provided in the city. The research method is descriptive and analytical. The required information was obtained through a researcher-made questionnaire from a sample of 670 people. The collected data were analyzed using Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Spearman, Chi-square and one-sample t-tests. The findings of the study indicated that tourists are largely satisfied with the socio-cultural and environmental conditions and infrastructural facilities and tourists with different educational backgrounds have the same views regarding satisfaction from tourism conditions. Also, there is no significant relationship between the tourists’ length of stay and their level of satisfaction with tourism conditions. The level of satisfaction of domestic tourists is high with respect to the host society and there is a significant difference between the attitudes of tourists in this regard. Moreover, tourists with different educational backgrounds have different views on how to deal with the host community. Based on these results, the authorities' claims regarding the evolution of the service delivery system to tourists cannot be ignored.