ahmad roumiani; Hamid Shayan; Sojasi Qeidari Hamdollah; Mohammad Reza Rezvani
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The experiences of past decades in countries around the world show that attention to the tourism sector is one of the most important economic and communication sectors of governments. Governments have implemented various policies to promote tourism and its sub-sectors at national, regional and local ...
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The experiences of past decades in countries around the world show that attention to the tourism sector is one of the most important economic and communication sectors of governments. Governments have implemented various policies to promote tourism and its sub-sectors at national, regional and local levels. The purpose of this study is a comparative analysis of Iranian Tourism Spatial Planning with Turkey, Serbia, and Portugal to use their experiences to reduce weaknesses and improve tourism development including rural tourism. This is fundamental research and the method used in this study is a comparative qualitative analysis based on the content analysis method. Library studies (documents) were used for data gathering. The research findings show that Turkey, Serbia, and Portugal succeed in spatial tourism planning by adapting programs and building convergence and partnerships between the spatial planning department at different national, regional and local (rural) levels. Tourism development has taken the lead - facilitating role, and taking strategic roles into account by empowering states in their legal plans and policies for tourism development. But at the national level, Iran is having problems because of the attitude and thinking of centralized planning and a partial attitude to the plans. At the regional level, there are problems such as lack of independence and the legal and political authority of regional managers in tourism programs. At the local level, there are problems (such as lack of legal authority to the local representative and lack of strategic participation) in the spatial planning of rural tourism destinations. One of the applications of this study is comparing the strength of the countries under study with Iran and then utilize all social resources, including human, economic and spatial and environmental resources. This approach helps to constitute a regional planning subdivision within a network of rural tourism destinations. And make vertical allocations in the field of tourism development to horizontal activities, which are an incentive for attracting tourists, managing and optimizing the implementation of the Rural Tourism Development Plan. On this basis, by orienting toward sustainable rural development, rural tourism can underpin regional development and form the indigenous and community-based tourism.
mohammad reza rezvani; Mahdieh sabaghpour; saeed shafia
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Governance is a procedure that with all its dimension, ultimately brings the mission of improving the quality of government services to the citizens within the framework of indicators such as transparency, justice, partnership, effectiveness and flexibility. The purpose of this study is to investigate ...
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Governance is a procedure that with all its dimension, ultimately brings the mission of improving the quality of government services to the citizens within the framework of indicators such as transparency, justice, partnership, effectiveness and flexibility. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of key players of electronic tourism in Iran in the realization of electronic governance. Therefore; good governance indicators were distinguished by the main players in the field of electronic tourism. In terms of research methodology, this is an applied research with qualitative orientation and used survey strategy. So, while reviewing and analyzing theoretical foundations, referring to library documents and using snowball sampling method, exploratory interviews were conducted and the interviews continued until the researcher's theoretical saturation. The results of the research presented in the form of an analytical model, show the contingent, passive and in some cases, the limited impact of government, electronic service providers and electronic consumers of Iran on good governance practices. The results showed that although there are good rules for achieving good governance, the cross-sectoral nature of tourism and the lack of a coherent and strategic look, the inadequate implementation of the talents in the laws and envisaged institutions, the conflict of interests and the power of the actors to obtain public interest, has been challenged the issue of access to good governance
Mohammad Najjarzadeh
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Agritourism has become increasingly important in recent years and differentcountries have put a lot of efforts to promote it. Experts believe that agritourismcan play an important and constructive role in sustainable agricultural andrural development as a new strategy. Accordingly, the present study ...
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Agritourism has become increasingly important in recent years and differentcountries have put a lot of efforts to promote it. Experts believe that agritourismcan play an important and constructive role in sustainable agricultural andrural development as a new strategy. Accordingly, the present study analyzes thechallenges and issues facing agritourism development in the rural areas ofShahrud city using a qualitative research design and purposive sampling. Datawere collected via holding interviews and meetings with three groups ofstakeholders (farmers, tourists and managers) based on the modified NominalGroup Technique (NGT) in the summer of 2015. The central question raised atthe meeting was: What are the challenges and issues of agritourism developmentin the rural areas of Shahrud city? According to the results, the stakeholderscategorized the challenges and issues facing agritourism development inShahrud into six groups: distance from major population resources,comprehensive national and regional policies, awareness and training,marketing, customs, and laws
