Sustainable development of tourism
Ali Asghar Mobasheri; moslem bagheri; zahra moaven; Fatemeh Shekari
Abstract
Considering the importance of developing food tourism as one of the most important and growing types in recent years, the present study was designed and implemented to model the factors affecting food tourism development. This research is developmental in terms of its purpose, and it is included in the ...
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Considering the importance of developing food tourism as one of the most important and growing types in recent years, the present study was designed and implemented to model the factors affecting food tourism development. This research is developmental in terms of its purpose, and it is included in the category of qualitative research in terms of data collection and analysis, which is done by the meta-synthesis method. According to the nature of the meta-synthesis method, the statistical population of the research is made up of previous studies related to the research topic. In the meantime, according to access the full text and review of the title, abstract, and content of the searched articles, 45 sources were selected for the research. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the collected data, and the intra-subject agreement method was used to control the quality of the analysis. As the research findings, the factors affecting the food tourism development were categorized in the form of six main themes, i.e., contextual factors, factors related to marketing and sales, factors related to human resources, infrastructural factors, intervening factors, and executive interventions. The results can increase managers' knowledge and awareness of factors affecting food tourism development and provide practical guidelines for managers, planners, and policymakers at different national and regional levels.
Ali asghar Mobasheri; Fatemeh Shekari; Moslem Bagheri; Zahra Moaven; Mehrdad Kiani
Abstract
Introduction
Ecotourism can serve as one of the effective strategies for economic, social, and environmental development of destinations. Nowadays, many policies aim to develop ecotourism and utilize its benefits, especially in the developing countries with rich natural resources. Iran is one of the ...
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Introduction
Ecotourism can serve as one of the effective strategies for economic, social, and environmental development of destinations. Nowadays, many policies aim to develop ecotourism and utilize its benefits, especially in the developing countries with rich natural resources. Iran is one of the countries with considerable potential for ecotourism development. However, there is no consistent plan to use the county’s potentialities in this respect. It is thus necessary to take serious measures to develop ecotourism and utilize Iran’s natural resources optimally. This study aims to propose a model of ecotourism development in Iran.
Materials and Methods
The present study relies on a mixed methods research design. Concerning the qualitative aspect, practitioners and experts were interviewed to extract the elements of the model. Then the data was analyzed through the method of thematic analysis. In the quantitative part, the dimensions and strategies were arranged into a questionnaire and were ranked by the tourism experts in Iran. Finally, the method of hesitant fuzzy sets was employed to analyze the data.
Results and Discussion
According to the results, the most important ecotourism development dimensions in Iran can be enumerated in order of importance as follows: management, infrastructure development, marketing and training, and human resource development. Moreover, the key ecotourism development strategies, in order of importance, are as follows: carrying out marketing activities to increase the market share of ecotourism, diversifying Iran’s ecotourism products, improving the access roads to tourism villages, and increasing the destination’s resilience to natural disasters.
Conclusion
Exploring the underlying conditions in Iran, this study proposed a model of ecotourism development in Iran as a potential destination for ecotourism. The findings can offer practical and scientific guidelines to managers and policymakers who seek to develop ecotourism in Iran.
