Mohammad Reza Rashidi; Yousef Ghanbari; Jamileh Karimi
Volume 10, Issue 32 , March 2016, , Pages 89-109
Abstract
Advances in technology and the growth in essential requirements of tourists has caused emerge of different parts of tourism business to respond tourists’ needs in receiving a variable range of information. This research has evaluated spatial distribution of web kiosks with emphasis on identified ...
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Advances in technology and the growth in essential requirements of tourists has caused emerge of different parts of tourism business to respond tourists’ needs in receiving a variable range of information. This research has evaluated spatial distribution of web kiosks with emphasis on identified factors and the ways to optimize them. WebInformation Kiosk provides tourists with useful information having the ability to provideinformation, promote, transact and interact, and intelligent relations with users. Large cities have essential needs for informing tourists by installing kiosks around the city. Hence, identifying potential sites suitable for installing and operating is necessity. The method of this study is descriptive. The main data were gathered from field study, by questionnaires and interviews. And the other information has been obtained through the library research. In the field study, in first interview and by collecting the information about the location parameters, factors were identified and a questionnaire was designed. After collecting data and processing them by SPSS software, AHP technique and GIS were applied for environment analysis. Findings showed that the important locations of the city such as Imam Khomeini square, the Airport, City Center and Kaveh terminal are the best places for installing information kiosks.
Mohammad Reza Rashidi; Hamid Zargham Broujeni; Mohammad Taghi Mirtorabi
Volume 9, Issue 27 , October 2014, , Pages 93-115
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AbstractThis study aims to find the Astro-Tourism potentials and to identify the strategies required for development of this kind of tourism in Iran. The research method which is used in this survey is different regarding different aims we are looking for. It is functional according to the purpose, field ...
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AbstractThis study aims to find the Astro-Tourism potentials and to identify the strategies required for development of this kind of tourism in Iran. The research method which is used in this survey is different regarding different aims we are looking for. It is functional according to the purpose, field study according to the control degree and measurement and descriptive according to the data collecting strategy. Therefore, the method is descriptive-analytic which the required data has been collected and analyzed by distributing the questionnaire and observation. Subsequently, inferential statistics including factor analysis has been used to achieve the aim of this research. The samples of this research were 206 persons were choices from amateurs, professionals and especially tourism experts in sky/star observation tours that were selected by Judgmental sampling. The data and methods of achieving descriptive and inferential statistics, including factor analysis using SPSS software were used. In this study, the questionnaire was composed of total of 35 variables. While considering these variables and ranking them, 7 factors identified by factor analysis. These factors involve 5/00 development infrastructure, 4/18 professional astronomy infrastructure, 3/88 ecological and geographical area/zone, 2/61 physical infrastructure of tourism, 2/43 safety and security, 2/00 preparing particular observing situation, 1/97 recreational tourism infrastructure
