Hadi Rafiei Darani; Javad Barati
Volume 9, Issue 25 , April 2014, , Pages 106-141
Abstract
Investment is a highly important economic variable that its increase or decrease can be a main cause of boom or recession in different economic sectors. It is also considered one of the most fundamental push factors in developing economic sectors. Tourism industry has a big share in Khorasan Razavi Province’s ...
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Investment is a highly important economic variable that its increase or decrease can be a main cause of boom or recession in different economic sectors. It is also considered one of the most fundamental push factors in developing economic sectors. Tourism industry has a big share in Khorasan Razavi Province’s revenues. This papers aims to evaluate the impacts of tourism invesment on employment levels. In doing so, the study made use of an updated input – output (IO) table of Khorasan Razavi Province, and RAS method to develop and update the IO table. Results demonstrate that a one percent increase in the tourism investment (in Hotels and Restaurants), generates as many as 15,316 employment opportunites in the overal economy of the province, out of which 534 jobs are directly in tourism sector (equivalent to 3.5 % of total employment). The employment resulted from a one percent increase in the value-added of tourism, reflects a 58 percent share of employment in tourism sector and 42 percent in other activities.
Gholamreza Noori; Zahra Taghizade
Volume 8, Issue 22 , June 2013, , Pages 80-107
Abstract
This research aims to prioritize the archetypaltourism regions situated on the Oramanat tourism pole in the North West of Kermanshah Province, based on their aptitude for investment. This study is an applied survey type research. Data were gathered through questionnaires and were analyzed using TOPSIS ...
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This research aims to prioritize the archetypaltourism regions situated on the Oramanat tourism pole in the North West of Kermanshah Province, based on their aptitude for investment. This study is an applied survey type research. Data were gathered through questionnaires and were analyzed using TOPSIS technique. Results indicate that archetypaltourism regions of Shamshir, Ghourighale, Noudeshe, Hajij and Veisolqarn are in the good level; Bouzinmarkhil with i SL 0.48 is in medium level; the areas of Nowsoudeh, Sarabemamishan, Shervineh, Sarabesefidbarg, Ozgolebamu, Bidmiri and Dalani with i SL of 0.2 to 0.4 are in the weak level, and Cheshmehrize region with i SL 0.2 is evaluated to be in the very weak level. Based on the research findings, yielding of the archetypal tourism regions with low level of investment suitability, to investors, is only a mere waste of resources. Therefore, tourism planners are supposed to improve the potentiality of these areas for investment first, and then offer them to investors.
