HERITAGE AND TOURISM JOURNAL
Year:2018 | Volume:2 | Issue:8 |Papers Count:5

Ritual Tourism is a spiritual type of tourism that has attracted the attention of todaysocieties. Religious places, according to their dimensions and spiritual nature, not only create a sense of belonging and attachment among natives, but also lead to a sense of belonging among tourists. The present study is descriptive-analytic and the required information is collected through library research studies. It uses a questionnaire with closed questions. The sampling method is simple random sampling which is selected according to the nature of the community and the statistical sample (400 tourists) and the purpose of the study. Data obtained through structural equation modeling (SEM) has been analyzed by the Amos software version 18. The results of the research show that there is a significant relationship between the quality of services and the religious tourists tendency to return. The results of the relationship between the idea of the destination and the loyalty to the religious destination also indicate the significance relationship between these two variables. Therefore, in order to benefit from the advantages of customer retention, religious tourism organizations should act in such a way as to ensure the satisfaction of religious tourists.

Holding chovgan (polo) events can help increase polo tourism. This kind of tourism awakens reminiscence of historical memories in the people of Iran in terms of tourism, resulting in dynamism and development of polo. The purpose of this study was to explore the creation and development of polo tourism based on event tourism in Tang Chogan, Kazerun, Iran. This was an applied developmental study, conducted through fieldwork. The present study used a mixed (qualitative and quantitative) research method. The study population included subjects who were active and working in the area of polo, tourism, urban management, culture, sports, business, and local business. The study sample included 202 subjects. The questionnaire reliability was α : 81 according to Cronbach's alpha, and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to confirm the results. The largest weights for each factor related to increase in sales of goods (0. 84) in the economic factor, increase in the spirit of interaction and tolerance and consequently respect for citizenship rights (0. 81) in the social factor, and strengthening of symbols and myths (0. 82) in the cultural factor. The tourism approach to cultural and historical effects of polo in different periods in Iran can lead to the dynamism and development of this sport. Holding chovgan events can help increase polo tourism.

The emergence of crime is one of the most important challenges as a phenomenon facing today's societies and all societies are confused and disturbed due to crime. Crime slows down the development path and threatens the security of the regions with the weakening of the indicators of social and human capital, the economy and the sovereignty of the people, thereby reducing the arrival of tourists. Tourism, in spite of the positive points of increasing income, creating employment and introducing culture to foreigners and etc., like any other phenomenon, has problems that can be threatened by social and familial values and mass extermination in societies. The success and sustained growth of tourism depends on the proper and consistent operation of several factors that are closely interlinked, one of the most important of which is the safety of tourists for tourism purposes. In this study, given the importance of the subject of crime and tourism, and the mutual opposition of these two variables, in two separate models using the panel data approach and generalized method of moments (GMM), for the time interval of 2005-2016 and data of provinces of the country were evaluated. First, using the principal component analysis method (PCA), the variable of the crime rate obtained from the combination of nine indicators of theft and then the research model was estimated. Accordingly, the results of the first model showed the positive impact of tourism on crime rates in the provinces of the country, and the results of the second model showed that by increasing the crime rate, tourism rate is decreased.

The effects of water and air, along with the natural effects that have become customary since ancient times, have a high value in today's topic as ecotourism (natural tourism), which has led to the travel of a large group of tourists from the world to natural and immature and intact areas. To watch natural landscapes, and basically visit the ecosystem and nature as it is. The Heyran Dam is one of the most unique ecotourism, located between the two regions of the Caspian region of Gilan province and the temperate mountain climate of Ardabil. Therefore, recognizing its potential and its environmental potential for planning and conservation is of particular importance. To manage tourism, unfortunately, so far, and perhaps these capabilities are not known, and only in the tourism weekend travelers from Ardebil and Gilan, leaving a trap of garbage on this eco-tourism or destruction by capitalists with a leverage of wealth and Power with a phenomenon called Vila this ecotourism is a cowardly capture We have tried to explore the environmental power of this ecotourism in this study. The method of field and analytical research is descriptive and the library and field observation method has been used to collect data. The results of the research indicate that the Heyran Gardens have a great ecosystem of eco-tourism in the form of climate and geomorphology, which has not been adequately managed for exploitation. Therefore, it is proposed to control the seizure of this area by unknown organisms (Selfregulation) and proper planning in order to protect this environmental power, it's a matter of time.

This article discusses new ways of cooperation of the countries of Southwest Asia in the tourism sector. The present study has been done analytically using library resources and first discusses the necessity and importance of tourism in this region and then referred to various ways of inter-regional cooperation in tourism industry. To create new ways to expand regional cooperation and play a major role in the development of tourism. In the South-West Asian region, the tourism sector must reach a general consensus that the establishment of Holding companies By Iran and is one of the best ways to grow and develop. It is recommended to set up parent-specialized tourism companies in the first step of the first level countries (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Kuwait) and later on the second level countries (Syria, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, Pakistan) Join this Holding companies.