EVALUATING THE GEO-TOURISM CAPABILITIES OF EXISTING GEOSITES IN KANDOVAN VILLAGE

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GHANBARI ABOLFAZL; HEJAZI MIR ASADOLLAH; GHANBARI MOHAMMAD

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Journal: Housing and Rural Environment Year:2013 | Volume:32 | Issue:141 Page(s): 109-119

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EVALUATING THE GEO-TOURISM CAPABILITIES OF EXISTING GEOSITES IN KANDOVAN VILLAGE

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GHANBARI ABOLFAZL | HEJAZI MIR ASADOLLAH | GHANBARI MOHAMMAD | Issue Writer Certificate

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KANDOVAN VILLAGEQ2

CAPABILITIES OF GEO-TOURISMQ2

SCIENTIFIC VALUE MODELQ1

VALUE ADDED MODELQ2

Abstract

Geo-tourism is geographical tourism that implicitly relies on geology and geomorphology characteristics as a ground for human activities and geographical features. So Geo-tourism mission compared to other sustainable tourisms is to preserve geographical characters of a place. Geo-tourism involves different aspects of experience of travel instead of emphasizing on one special aspect of traveling experiences like environment, culture and etc. Thus in addition to introduction of accurate capabilities of a geomorphologic place for attraction of tourists, Geo-tourism tries to increase tourist knowledge and it leads to accompaniment by local individuals in process of visiting geomorphologic places to the satisfaction of tourists. On the other hand, the journey should be useful in improvement of local people life and finally it should be employed in best manner without any damages. The purpose of Geo-tourism should be manifested in sustainability of total region and preservation of geographical characteristics of the visited place and it should lead to empowerment and increase of geomorphologic areas including environment, cultural heritage and welfare of the residents providing ground for sustainable development of touristic area. By this approach, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate a number of existing Geosites of KANDOVAN VILLAGE by using the scientific and VALUE ADDED MODELs. Kandovan is located at 62 km South West of Tabriz in Osku County. Kandovan is one of the three rocky villages in the world with this advantage that still there is life. Despite its geo-tourism potential, and being located in the western slopes of Sahand Mountain, Kandovan possesses archeological resources, the climatic and geomorphologic phenomena. But still it does not have a right position inside and outside of the country. Therefore, in the line of the goals of this paper, the data have been collected by library resources and field operations and have been analyzed by scientific value and value-added methods. Ecological and aesthetic aspects, cultural, economic and scientific values of the studied geosites have been investigated quantitatively in this research. The results show that the scientific value of the existing geosites is higher than their value added. It indicates a lack of directed investment in establishing infrastructure, introduction of the geo-tourism phenomena and inattention of domestic agencies for organizing tours. It was also identified that rocky homes, in terms of value added and scientific value, have higher priorities than any other existing geosites due to the aesthetic aspect and attractiveness of these houses.

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GHANBARI, ABOLFAZL, HEJAZI, MIR ASADOLLAH, & GHANBARI, MOHAMMAD. (2013). EVALUATING THE GEO-TOURISM CAPABILITIES OF EXISTING GEOSITES IN KANDOVAN VILLAGE. HOUSING AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT, 32(141), 109-119. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/186195/en

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GHANBARI ABOLFAZL, HEJAZI MIR ASADOLLAH, GHANBARI MOHAMMAD. EVALUATING THE GEO-TOURISM CAPABILITIES OF EXISTING GEOSITES IN KANDOVAN VILLAGE. HOUSING AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT[Internet]. 2013;32(141):109-119. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/186195/en

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ABOLFAZL GHANBARI, MIR ASADOLLAH HEJAZI, and MOHAMMAD GHANBARI, “EVALUATING THE GEO-TOURISM CAPABILITIES OF EXISTING GEOSITES IN KANDOVAN VILLAGE,” HOUSING AND RURAL ENVIRONMENT, vol. 32, no. 141, pp. 109–119, 2013, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/186195/en

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