Nahid Pourang; Ali Pourang; Seyed Morteza Ghayour Baghbani
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Abstract The main purpose of the present study was to classify destination-based factors affecting attracting tourists and their length of stay in Mashhad and provide interpretive structural modeling and clustering of these factors to assist tourism industry executives in this metropolis for optimal ...
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Abstract The main purpose of the present study was to classify destination-based factors affecting attracting tourists and their length of stay in Mashhad and provide interpretive structural modeling and clustering of these factors to assist tourism industry executives in this metropolis for optimal planning. A qualitative approach has been used to achieve this goal. Experts' opinions on the factors that could influence attracting tourists and their length of stay in Mashhad were collected through semi-structured interviews and questionnaire distribution. MICMAC analysis is used to classify the elements and validate the interpretive structural model factors in the study to reach their results and conclusions. The results show that "legal and governmental," and "managerial" aspects as driver factors have a great influence on "welfare," "infrastructural," "economical," "socio-cultural," and "marketing" ones as related factors.
Zahra Nasrolahi; Neda Jahanbazi; Tahereh Naseri
Volume 9, Issue 28 , March 2015, , Pages 17-37
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Nowadays, tourism is one of the major constituents and it is considered as one of the main economic sources and an affecting factor on economic development of human societies. Tourism expansion is also affected on foreign exchange and national income, employment and other macroeconomic indicators. According ...
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Nowadays, tourism is one of the major constituents and it is considered as one of the main economic sources and an affecting factor on economic development of human societies. Tourism expansion is also affected on foreign exchange and national income, employment and other macroeconomic indicators. According to the importance of this subject and the role of tourism in economic development, this study first tries to evaluate and prioritize 16 provinces of Iran in terms of the types of tourism attractions and some of the economic growth indices using TOPSIS technique and then it tries to study the relationship between tourism attractions and economic growth indices using multivariable regression. Results indicate that Fars, Tehran and Khorasan Razavi provinces have the highest ratings in terms of tourist attractions . And man-made attractions effect on economic development more than natural and historical attractions.
