Asghar Tahmasebi; Ali Movahed; Ahmad Mohabbati
Abstract
Spatial analysis of tourists’ demands is crucially important for tourism destinations management and marketing. This research aims to compare the spatial centralities of the tourism attractions of Sa'd Abad historical complex for national and foreign visitors. In doing so, data from the ticket ...
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Spatial analysis of tourists’ demands is crucially important for tourism destinations management and marketing. This research aims to compare the spatial centralities of the tourism attractions of Sa'd Abad historical complex for national and foreign visitors. In doing so, data from the ticket sales system were used to construct the proximity matrix using the concept of interlocking-visit and via Python programming. Then the spatial centrality of the attractions was calculated by NetworkX software. The result shows that, Museums of the Mellat Palace, the Green Palace, the Museum of the Royal Cars have the highest degree centralities and Museums of Art, Miramad Museum, Behzad Museum have the lowest degree centrality for both groups. The major difference between the two groups' demands was the royal attractions. The Museums of Royal Cars, Royal Dishes, Court Weapons, and the Royal Kitchen have become more central to domestic tourists than foreign tourists.
Saeed Rasekhi; Sorayya Mohammadi
Abstract
Over the past two decades, international tourism has developed rapidly and has a significant economic importance. This study investigates factors affecting tourism demand in the Caspian Sea littoral states. Panel data method during the period of 2000-2013 has been employed. The results indicate that ...
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Over the past two decades, international tourism has developed rapidly and has a significant economic importance. This study investigates factors affecting tourism demand in the Caspian Sea littoral states. Panel data method during the period of 2000-2013 has been employed. The results indicate that the per capita income, real exchange rate and trade liberalization has a positive effect on tourism. Also, other obtained results of this research show the economic instability has a significant negative effect on tourism demand. Regarding the significant potential for tourism development in this area, it is recommended while having the policy to promote tourism, paying particular attention to factors affecting tourism demands in the shoreline countries of Caspian Sea.
rahim heydari; ali akbar taghi pour; majid feshari
Volume 7, Issue 19 , November 2012, , Pages 117-137
Abstract
The significance of tourism’s economic impact in developing countries is to such an extent that De Kadt dubbed it their “passport to development”. Hence, factors influencing the demand for this industry have been always the center of attention of researchers and planners. In this vein, ...
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The significance of tourism’s economic impact in developing countries is to such an extent that De Kadt dubbed it their “passport to development”. Hence, factors influencing the demand for this industry have been always the center of attention of researchers and planners. In this vein, foreign trade is known to have a significant impact on tourism demand, and the New Trade Theories (NTT) accentuate the role it plays in tourism development. In this study, India, Pakistan and Turkey are selected as Iran’s main foreign trade partners and as origins for traveling to Iran. The model is estimated by GMM approach in the Gravity model framework. Empirical results of the paper indicate that international trade has a positive and significant effect on tourism demand in the destination country. Moreover the geographical distance and price ratio variables are proved to have negative and significant impacts on Iran’s foreign tourism demand over the study period
