Elahe Nasernasir; Hossein Parvaresh
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In this study the environmental effects and risks of tourism in Hormoz Island was studied using EFMEA method. For this study field surveys was conducted and also we consulted with environmental and tourism experts, then risk priority numbers ( RPN ) was calculated using pollution extent, occurrence likelihood ...
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In this study the environmental effects and risks of tourism in Hormoz Island was studied using EFMEA method. For this study field surveys was conducted and also we consulted with environmental and tourism experts, then risk priority numbers ( RPN ) was calculated using pollution extent, occurrence likelihood and risk severity from EFMEA tables in according to 15 expert viewpoints. then all risks was categorized in 3 categories ( high, medium and low ) and 18 environmental risk was identified that 14 risks were in medium risks, 2 risks were in low risks and 2 risks were in high risks that were risks from solid wastes production with water and soil pollution consequence and risks from solid waste landfill with air, water and soil pollution consequence.
Mohsen Fazeli varzaneh; Ali Ghorbi; Mahdi Bahmani
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The purpose of this research was to examine Iran status concerning the quantitative and qualitative dimensions, compare with countries in the Middle East in order to be aware of Iran’s position, and help to decision-making in tourism policy-making; Also, the relation between scientific production ...
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The purpose of this research was to examine Iran status concerning the quantitative and qualitative dimensions, compare with countries in the Middle East in order to be aware of Iran’s position, and help to decision-making in tourism policy-making; Also, the relation between scientific production and tourism income was examined. The present study was carried out with the Scientometrics approach. Tourism scientific products extracted from WOS database between 1998-2017. HistCite and VOSviewer software were used for data analysis and drawing of scientific maps, and for statistical analysis, Excel and SPSS software were used. The results showed that Iran has 354 indexed documents in this database. In terms of the number of documents in this field, Iran has 38th place in the world and the third one in the Middle East. Also, in terms of international cooperation in the world and the Middle East, the most cooperative works of all in Iran were with Turkey and Malaysia respectively. The results indicated a growing trend in documents number of Iran, in the field of in tourism. Hence, Considering that Iran has a good status in the Middle East in terms of the number of documents, but it has had a poor performance in terms of citations and international cooperation, which should be taken into consideration. Also, according to results, the relation between scientific productions and tourism income was significant at the level of 0.01.
Mohammad Fathian Brojeny; Mohammad Hosein Owji
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The measurement of both offline and online marketing is the topic of numerous research papers and important concerns of marketing managers. Despite the rapid growth of affiliate marketing, especially in the tourism industry, in Iran, Iranian researchers have paid little attention to this area. The aim ...
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The measurement of both offline and online marketing is the topic of numerous research papers and important concerns of marketing managers. Despite the rapid growth of affiliate marketing, especially in the tourism industry, in Iran, Iranian researchers have paid little attention to this area. The aim of this study was to examine factors affecting the measurement of online affiliate marketing performance in the tourism industry. Due to the research is developmental in terms of purpose, and descriptive-survey method in terms of collecting information, first, besides studying literature review, a set of criteria measuring affiliate marketing performance were identified. Then, having interviewed professors and experts in the field of tourism marketing, we distribute questionnaires among the statistical sample, tourism activists. Next, having gathered data, we analyzed, mined them, and prioritized suitable criteria for measuring affiliate marketing performance in the tourism industry. exploratory factor analysis was performed to classify the sub-indices, and confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the validity of the model. Finally, the results showed six factor including: expose capabilities, communications capability, financial factors, making competitive advantages, abilities to attract, and brand creation are important factors to measure affiliate marketing performance in the tourism of Iran.
Mohammad Reza Farzin; Mahmoud Hassan Pour; Seyed Mojtaba Mahmoud Zadeh; Ali Arab Mazar Yazdi
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The analysis of the quality of the business environment and tourism entrepreneurship is one of the most important preconditions for improving the tourism business environment. In this regard, the new institutional economy, which focuses on the institutional environment, interprets the relations of tourist ...
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The analysis of the quality of the business environment and tourism entrepreneurship is one of the most important preconditions for improving the tourism business environment. In this regard, the new institutional economy, which focuses on the institutional environment, interprets the relations of tourist actors, which undeniable influence of government, laws and governance structure is undeniable. In this research, an explanation of the factors influencing the institutional environment of the tourism sector has been attempted with the concept of institutionalism and a qualitative approach (thematic analysis). Therefore, through in-depth interviews with 24 economic and tourism experts, institutional factors affecting the business environment and tourism entrepreneurship were identified and explained. The results of the research identified three main themes: the legal system, government policies and science and technology with their sub-themes, It was identified that the business environment of tourism is affected by them and the management and organization...
Rahele Ghozbanii; Aliakbar Aminbeidokhti; Sakineh Jafari; Hassan Haqiqat
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The competitiveness of geotourism destinations depends on a number of factors, including resources, demand conditions, management, and destination marketing. A comprehensive model for geotourism destination competition in the world has not yet been developed and the native model of competitiveness of ...
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The competitiveness of geotourism destinations depends on a number of factors, including resources, demand conditions, management, and destination marketing. A comprehensive model for geotourism destination competition in the world has not yet been developed and the native model of competitiveness of tourism destination in Iran has not been considered by researchers so far. The purpose of this study is to determine the competitiveness factors of geotourism destinations in Iran. The research method is qualitative and sequential exploratory. Using multiple resource alignment methods consisting of three sides: a) collecting theoretical foundations, infrastructural principles related to the research variable, b) research conducted in the field of competitiveness, and c) surveying the opinions of key experts, geotourism destination competitiveness factors were developed. The main indicators are formulated in three dimensions of competitive assets, competitiveness process, and competitive environment. The competitive assets dimension include the components of attractions, location, available facilities, supportive factors; the process of competitiveness dimension includes components of policymaking and planning, education and research, destination development and infrastructure improvement, destination marketing and management, protection and control, destination operations and branding, and the competitive environment dimension includes the components of external environmental conditions and factors affecting consumer demand. The results indicate that the competitiveness indicators of geotourism destination in Iran can cause a change in attracting tourists and maintaining and sustaining the sustainable development of Iran's tourism at the national and international levels in the current highly competitive conditions.
mohammad saleh ahmadi; Mohammad Taghi Rahnamaii; Esmaeil aliakbari
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In any type of tourism trip, there are probably some reasons that, if combined, can be considered as motivational factors for travel. Awareness of these factors and how they affect different stages is essential in planning. Urban development plans in Iran do not have the proper and expected function ...
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In any type of tourism trip, there are probably some reasons that, if combined, can be considered as motivational factors for travel. Awareness of these factors and how they affect different stages is essential in planning. Urban development plans in Iran do not have the proper and expected function for planners, urban managers, and people, and tourism in these plans does not play a significant role. This research seeks to analyze the factors of tourism weaknesses in these projects. Methods: according to the research objectives, this is applied research which used descriptive-analytical method and semi-structured interviews with emphasis on exploratory approach. Results: Based on exploratory analysis, four factors were identified on tourism weakness in urban development plans of Kermanshah province, which include institutional, perspective, structural and managerial factors. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and examine the relationship between factors and determine their contribution. Conclusion: the results of this study showed that the main components of the research have a significant effect on the tourism weakness in urban development plans of Kermanshah province. The structural equation analysis showed that the first factor (institutional) with the critical ratio of 2.159, the second factor (perspective) with the critical ratio of 2.801, the third factor (structural) with the critical ratio of 2.506, and the fourth factor (managerial) with the critical ratio of 2.173, each with the significance level of 0.05 has a significant effect on the tourism weakness in urban development plans of Kermanshah province.
Morteza Khazaei Pool; Abolfazl Tajzadehnamin; Hamid Zargham Boroujeni; Mehdi Karoubi
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This research has two main objectives, the first goal is to provide an entrepreneurial marketing model for the hotel industry in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second goal is to measure entrepreneurial marketing and its effects on hotel performance. To do this research an exploratory mixed method ...
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This research has two main objectives, the first goal is to provide an entrepreneurial marketing model for the hotel industry in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second goal is to measure entrepreneurial marketing and its effects on hotel performance. To do this research an exploratory mixed method (qualitative-quantitative) have been used. In the qualitative section, the researcher used qualitative content analysis to develop an entrepreneurial marketing scale and a model. To gather data; in-depth interviews have been used with 20 directors of 3, 4 and 5-star hotels in Tehran. In the quantitative sector, in order to collect data, three questionnaires of entrepreneurial marketing, financial and non-financial performance was used. Accordingly, 48 questionnaires of entrepreneurial marketing and financial performance and 384 questionnaires of non-financial have been gathered. For the validity of the questionnaires, Corrected Item-Total Correlation, content validity ratio, face validity, and confirmatory factor analysis were used and for reliability Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability (Dillon-Goldstein's rho coefficient) were calculated by using the Smart PLS software. The results showed that everything was appropriate. Structural equation modeling was also used to test the hypotheses of the research using Smart PLS software. The results confirm the direct impact of entrepreneurial marketing on financial performance and rejecting the mediating role of non-financial performance in transferring the effect of entrepreneurial marketing on financial performance
Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli; Zhilla Sajjadi; Saber Sedighi
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The present study analyzes the factors affecting the commodification of rural space in Mahmoudabad county of Mazandaran province. In this study, the descriptive-analytical method was used. The statistical population of the study consisted of 91 villages in Mahmoudabad County according to the Census of ...
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The present study analyzes the factors affecting the commodification of rural space in Mahmoudabad county of Mazandaran province. In this study, the descriptive-analytical method was used. The statistical population of the study consisted of 91 villages in Mahmoudabad County according to the Census of Iran in 2016. Half of the villages were selected randomly. Data collection was done using a researcher-made questionnaire and processing of satellite images in four periods. The validity of the research instrument was evaluated by the opinion of the relevant professors and experts and its reliability was determined by internal consistency using Cronbach's alpha which ranged from 0.76 to 0.94 for various variables indicating the optimality of the questionnaire. SPSS 22 software was used for data analysis. The tests used in this study were frequency test, single sample t-test, and chi-square test. The results show that the weakness of the tax system (withholding tax on vacant and second homes for tourism, withholding tax on profits from the sale of land and housing), the inefficiency of the banking system (high-interest rates), the weakness of government policies to support the manufacturing sector have made the Mahmoudabad tourism environment fragile. The consequences can be drastic changes in land use, expansion of construction and landscape destruction.
Morteza Bazrafshan; Sahar Samani
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There is a need for supplementary income for farmers and employment creation to help alleviate poverty. Agritourism has been identified as an opportunity for growth and development as it has the potential to meet those needs. In this article, according to the literature review and opinion polls of experts ...
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There is a need for supplementary income for farmers and employment creation to help alleviate poverty. Agritourism has been identified as an opportunity for growth and development as it has the potential to meet those needs. In this article, according to the literature review and opinion polls of experts (officials, experts, and experts in agriculture and tourism), the factors affecting the development of agritourism were identified and investigated. In the initial summary, 134 indices were extracted and reduced to 34 indices during the three stages of expert opinion polling. 260 experts answered the questions in this questionnaire. According to statistical analysis using SPSS and LISREL software, research questions were analyzed and the final model of this research consists of 1. Intellectual infrastructure, 2. Physical infrastructure, 3. Institutional factors, 4. Promotion and development factors, and 5. Competitiveness factors.
Barat Ali Khakpour; Hamed abbasi; nemat shakarami
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Considering the global competitive environment, branding tourism potential is important in directing resources and attracting investment. Today, most countries and cities are planning to earn foreign exchange using this green industry. Therefore, in this research, considering the high potential of Fars ...
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Considering the global competitive environment, branding tourism potential is important in directing resources and attracting investment. Today, most countries and cities are planning to earn foreign exchange using this green industry. Therefore, in this research, considering the high potential of Fars province in the field of historical tourism, we seek to evaluate the tourism brand of Fars province based on the tourism development document of this province in 1404 and national competitiveness. In terms of the methodology, this is a descriptive-analytical and in terms of the purposes, this is an applied research. The required data and information collected using library and documentary sources (tourism development document of Fars province) and survey method (questionnaire-interview). The results show that Fars province in terms of tourist attraction and branding criteria, has a competitive map below Mashhad with 3.5 points and 3 out of 5 points, respectively, and it is in a competitive situation with Isfahan province and above other national and regional rivals (Khuzestan, Yazd, and Kerman). The result of the proportional map shows that the main factors influencing the development and branding of tourism in Fars province are macro-management of the country, lack of credit, political perspectives on the historical tourism of Fars province, restrictions of the Islamic society and international sanctions. Also, the most important features of Fars province which have four characteristics of rarity, non-repeatable, irrelevant and valuable are Shah Cheragh shrine, the tomb of the characters and national monuments, historical monuments of Fars province. Therefore, considering these sources and the significant variables affecting tourism branding in Fars province, a map of strategic alignment has been drawn and appropriate strategies have been suggested
Alireza Naser Sadrabadi; razieh almasi sarvestani; Elham Ghobadi
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated model of the Kano and associative rules for classifying customer needs and analyzing their behavior. The statistical population of this research includes customers of four and five-star hotels in Tehran. In this research, after collecting data, customers' ...
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated model of the Kano and associative rules for classifying customer needs and analyzing their behavior. The statistical population of this research includes customers of four and five-star hotels in Tehran. In this research, after collecting data, customers' expectations were categorized from the website by the Kano model and then the relationship between customer demographic characteristics and the results of the Kano model was specified by associative rules. The result of the classification of services by the Kano model shows that booking online and tracking reservations are in the category of basic needs; booking by e-mail and free download are in the category of functional needs, and information websites and e-newsletters are in the category of exciting needs. Also, as an example, the results of exploring associative rules show that for men, having an online reservation on a website is a basic need with the probability of 93%, but this is a basic need for women with the probability of 89%.
Iman Raeesi Vanani; Seyed Mohammad Jafar Jalali
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Tourism is an important industry from different aspects for government, industry, religious groups, anthropologists and tourists. The study of the scientific trend in the tourism sector can increase the knowledge of each group, and ultimately, promotes researchers' awareness of this area and appropriate ...
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Tourism is an important industry from different aspects for government, industry, religious groups, anthropologists and tourists. The study of the scientific trend in the tourism sector can increase the knowledge of each group, and ultimately, promotes researchers' awareness of this area and appropriate decision making of business owners. The purpose of the present research is to investigate the scientific trend of tourism in all Middle Eastern countries, using the text-exploration algorithm of sequence exploration, which was selected as the most reliable scientific database of the world for reviewing articles. The purpose of this research is to investigate the scientific trend of tourism in all Middle Eastern countries, using the text-exploration algorithm of sequence exploration, which was selected as the most reliable scientific database of the world for reviewing articles. For this purpose, the Web of Science database was selected as the world's most authoritative database for reviewing articles. A total of 1141 articles were searched for the word "tourism", taking into account the Middle East countries on the database. Among the various methods for extracting and analyzing scientific trends, the valid method of text mining was selected using the Burst Detection algorithm, and this method is used to analyze and evaluate the extracted papers, which also has significant results. The results of the analysis of the articles show that some scientific areas have more repetition in the title, keywords, and abstracts of international articles which indicates the importance of these areas of science to other areas and the need for more attention to them in the field of tourism.
Saeed Shafia; Mahdie Sabaghpour Azarian
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Today’s Human is trapped in materialistic and physical changes, this fact has made him sick of repetition and routine Today’s Human is trapped in materialistic and physical changes, this fact hasmade him sick of repetition and routine flow of life, this is while the twodimensions of ...
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Today’s Human is trapped in materialistic and physical changes, this fact has made him sick of repetition and routine Today’s Human is trapped in materialistic and physical changes, this fact hasmade him sick of repetition and routine flow of life, this is while the twodimensions of spirituality and physical aspect are inseparable from humanbeing, but seems like spirituality is being more and more ignored thus human isseeking for the meanings and values to free himself of perplexity. Tourism as aphenomenon is being known as a means of searching for meaning of being.Modern Tourists differ from the traditional travellers, their curiosity conveysthem to seek, realize and reach to the level of awareness. Thus far, it isundeniable that the huge number of studies had been focused on economic andmonetary impacts of tourism and less attended to the spiritual concepts of it.This qualitative research investigates on re-defining and clarifying of thespirituality concept through tourism and complements the achievements byanalyzing the English and Persian literature aligning with interviews of expertsin this field. The results of the research illustrate the tourism influence on theexpansion of spiritual aspects in tourists’ lives and the conceptual frameworkclassifies the findings through main factors and sub factors of spirituality intourism
Mahmood Ziaee; Davoud Abbasi Karjegan; Gholamreza Kazemian; Mahdi Karoobi
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The purpose of this research is to provide the “Three-Dimensional Model of Tehran Tourism Management (TDMTTM)” using a two-stages exploratory mixed method design (qualitative-quantitative). At the first and second stages, content analysis and structural equation modeling have been used, respectively. ...
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The purpose of this research is to provide the “Three-Dimensional Model of Tehran Tourism Management (TDMTTM)” using a two-stages exploratory mixed method design (qualitative-quantitative). At the first and second stages, content analysis and structural equation modeling have been used, respectively. The validity of questionnaire is as content and face validity. Content validity ratio (CVR) and content validity index (CVI) was estimated to be 0.69 and 0.79, respectively. The obtained reliability in Cronbach's Alpha coefficient method is 0.933 and in split of method is 0.0806, respectively. The sample comprises of 400 persons of tourism managers, experts, and professors, from whom the total of 387 valid questionnaires. Were obtaind the The results show that it is necessary to consider structural, environmental, and content factors in designing Tehran Tourism Management Model, and accordingly. “ The Three-Dimensional Model of Tehran Tourism Management (TDMTTM) was developed.”.
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Despite the importance of perceived risk related to tourism and willingness to revisit, few studies have been done on the effect of perceived risk on the willingness to revisit through the mediating role of destination image. By investigating the effect of perceived risk on the destination image and ...
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Despite the importance of perceived risk related to tourism and willingness to revisit, few studies have been done on the effect of perceived risk on the willingness to revisit through the mediating role of destination image. By investigating the effect of perceived risk on the destination image and its mediating role on the perceived risk as well as the willingness to revisit, this study has created new insights. The statistical population consisted of all domestic tourists who visited Arg-e Bam in spring and early summer of 2016. Due to the lack of access to detailed statistics of tourists who have visited Bam, 200 domestic visitors were selected using convenience sampling method. The study is an applied research and uses descriptive - data collection (questionnaire) method. In this study, the mediating role of both cognitive and emotional images on the relationship of three risks of the physical, financial and social and psychological and willingness to revisit were investigated. The obtained results indicated that the cognitive and emotional images play a mediating role on the relationship between physical and financial risk and willingness to revisit; however, there is no mediating role on the relationship between social - psychological risk and willingness to revisit.
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Along with the evolution of the relationship between tourism and economicgrowth, other aspects of economic welfare have been more attractive rather thaneconomic growth. In this study, we will test the causal relationship amongtourism, economic growth, poverty and inequality in Iran by adding tourism ...
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Along with the evolution of the relationship between tourism and economicgrowth, other aspects of economic welfare have been more attractive rather thaneconomic growth. In this study, we will test the causal relationship amongtourism, economic growth, poverty and inequality in Iran by adding tourism toTriangle of Poverty, Economic Growth and Inequality to answer this question:"Is tourism development as an important factor of mentioned triangle to achievea lower level of poverty?”.We test this relationship by applying the GeneralizedMethod of Moment techniques and by testing alternative existing theories in theperiod of 1350 until 1391. Our empirical findings show that tourism has apositive effect on Iran’s economic growth and also reduces inequality andpoverty in this country.
Ali Morovati sharifabadi; Zinat Jamshidi
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Nowadays, tourism industry is considered as the main part of the global economy. tourism industry is among the most important industries capable of stimulating economic growth. Understanding what drives satisfaction for a tourist is one of the most relevant areas of research for the tourism industry. ...
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Nowadays, tourism industry is considered as the main part of the global economy. tourism industry is among the most important industries capable of stimulating economic growth. Understanding what drives satisfaction for a tourist is one of the most relevant areas of research for the tourism industry. Tourists’ satisfaction is a strong indicator of their intention to visit and recommend destinations to others. This is one of the cheapest and most effective forms of marketing and development. Yazd province is important in tourism. In this research, fuzzy DEMATEL is used to investigate and modeling the relationship among effective factors in Domestic tourists’ satisfaction in Yazd province. To achieve this purpose, factors were identified after a comprehensive review of literature and fuzzy Delphi. Then to explain and evaluate the relationship among the factors, the fuzzy DEMATEL approach was used. According to the results, factors affecting the satisfaction of Yazd domestic tourists are cost levels and their fairness; public transportation performance; provided services; quality of facilities and services; tour operators’ knowledge; cleanness of places; quality of attractions; parking services; urban architecture beauty and quality; cultural values; hospitality of host community; tourism advertisement at province level; quality of tourist guide books, brochures and maps; destination facilities and infrastructure; variety of customs, traditions and cultures; variety of accommodation and entertainment services; region’s health; uniqueness of attractions; variety of tour services, souvenirs, handicrafts, food and beverage; and secondary attractions. Finally, some recommendations were offered for enhancing tourists’ satisfaction based on findings.
Ali Ahmadi; Behnam Qelichkhani
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Based on Statistics of concerned organizations, most of the travels are ground trips,specially by private cars. Existence of natural facilities and Infrastructures is considered as the most important base of tourist paths. In this research, first, by evaluating available infrastructures, and presenting ...
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Based on Statistics of concerned organizations, most of the travels are ground trips,specially by private cars. Existence of natural facilities and Infrastructures is considered as the most important base of tourist paths. In this research, first, by evaluating available infrastructures, and presenting new suggestive points, and also, with introducing levels of camping, factors which underlie creation and development of a welfare service center were taken into consideration. Finally, levels of camping were preceded and introduced through the AHP method. Referring to the literature, 3 levels of camping were introduced. Then, drawings and tables were presented based on effective factors due to significant priority which shows location of these 3 levels of camping on the principle path of Golestan province. Although an article cannot address all of available issues completely, due to necessity and complexity of the topic, but this research has gained an appropriate answer through the optimum way. Finally, all of available and proposed camping points have been prioritized in a table, and consequently, the results led to open up new horizons in the field of tourism services development and promotion.
Sahar Samiee; Maryam Sadat Ghiasian
Volume 10, Issue 31 , September 2015, , Pages 1-18
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The primary purpose of the research is to find the discursive strategies bywhich Iranian managers and elite legitimize or delegitimize discourses ontourism in Iran and the secondary purpose is to find the differences betweengovernmental and nongovernmental discursive legitimacy of managers and elitein ...
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The primary purpose of the research is to find the discursive strategies bywhich Iranian managers and elite legitimize or delegitimize discourses ontourism in Iran and the secondary purpose is to find the differences betweengovernmental and nongovernmental discursive legitimacy of managers and elitein Iran. Critical Discourse Analysis of Van Leeuwen(2008) has been selected asa method of analysis . The population is 70 articles consist of news, interviewsand speeches on tourism and 23 of all were selected purposefully as thesamples. Both groups of governmental and nongovernmental managers and elitehave legitimized positive interaction with the world and the security of Iran buthave delegitimized the situation of tourism infrastructure and negativepropaganda against Iran. Governmental sector agrees presence of privatesector but with monitoring services of travel agencies, while private sectordemands reduction of the role of government in this field.
Samira Pouramraee; Mohammadreza Akbari; Amir Saberi
Volume 10, Issue 31 , September 2015, , Pages 71-84
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The urban green space is one of the most important elements in urbanmetabolism. Global efforts have been done with the aim of physical environmentconservation related to ecosystems, fauna and flora. Green spaces are made inorder to improve urban ecology and provide a pleasant place for leisure time.The ...
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The urban green space is one of the most important elements in urbanmetabolism. Global efforts have been done with the aim of physical environmentconservation related to ecosystems, fauna and flora. Green spaces are made inorder to improve urban ecology and provide a pleasant place for leisure time.The most important effects of green spaces on cities are reduction of air andnoise pollution, temperature adjustment and increase of air humidity. Othereffects are relative. This study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive interms of methodology. Data were gathered from both primary and secondaryresearch. To analyze data, One Sample T-test was used. The results showed thatin confidence level of 95%, significance level is smaller than alpha level of 5%.Thus, the Chengery Park can effectively contribute in development of tourismindustry. Then, developing Chengery Park is necessary for responding people’sneeds.
Zohreh Fanni; Mohammad Alizadeh Touli; Zaynab Zahmatkesh
Volume 9, Issue 28 , March 2015, , Pages 39-72
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Tourism is an important activity with economic, social and environmental effects on cities. Given this importance, tourism development policy is an approach that urban societies have paid attention to it so that increasing its results they can minimize its negative effects. The purpose of this paper ...
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Tourism is an important activity with economic, social and environmental effects on cities. Given this importance, tourism development policy is an approach that urban societies have paid attention to it so that increasing its results they can minimize its negative effects. The purpose of this paper is studying economic, social and environmental effects of tourism on development of Qeshm island cities. This study is an explorative research that based on descriptive- analytic method and collecting library and field information. Statistical samples of this study include all of household heads in Qeshm city; based on Cochran formula 371 heads were selected through simple random sampling. Questionnaire was used in order to collect data; Cranach's alpha was 0.78 that indicates its good reliability. Collected data were categorized by SPSS software and by Chi-Square Test meaningfulness of data was determined and analyzed. Study results show that in economic context, tourism in addition to job creation, income increase ad qualitative and quantitative improvement of handicrafts, has led to price increase, land trade and building increase. In social context, it has led to improvement in education and health, increase in citizens’ interaction and security. In environmental although it has had positive effects but it had many negative consequences such as pollution, traffic increase, land application change and decay of valuable urban texture that are contrary to urban development goals. So by material planning and attempt to have optimized use of tourists’ entry, economic condition and consequently social, environmental and structural conditions can be improved.
Saied Saieda Ardakani; Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi; Meysam Shafie Roudposhti
Volume 9, Issue 27 , October 2014, , Pages 117-142
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AbstractToday, many organizations including tourism service offices rely on many systems to start their business and to survive in this complicated competitive environment. Business Intelligence as a system is regarded a competitive advantage and a critical factor in the success of organizations. Business ...
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AbstractToday, many organizations including tourism service offices rely on many systems to start their business and to survive in this complicated competitive environment. Business Intelligence as a system is regarded a competitive advantage and a critical factor in the success of organizations. Business intelligence, by integrating organization’s information and data provides the administrators with the possibility of tracking and controlling the key processes of the organization and is a basis for making effective decisions. After identifying the dimensions, factors and components of business intelligence, this paper goes to the hypothesis testing using methods of statistical analysis, then if the hypothesis is accepted, it will investigate the significant differences between the variances using ratio variance homogeneity test. In case of the absence of significant differences between the variances, the Duncan test agent will be used for sorting and ranking the factors. Finally, using TOPSIS fuzzy techniques, it will rank all the components of business intelligence. This paper comes to the conclusion that Tourism offices, concerning all aspects, have been in an acceptable condition and the human resource factor in the internal dimension and customers in the external dimension have been of the utmost importance
Amir Hossein Halabian; Laleh Poureidivand
Volume 9, Issue 27 , October 2014, , Pages 143-164
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AbstractThe tourism industry is humankind possesses certain features that make it distinct from economic activities. Tourism is a multifaceted activity and one of the most complex businesses with regard to human geography. The effect of climate on tourism demand and satisfaction of tourists make up this ...
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AbstractThe tourism industry is humankind possesses certain features that make it distinct from economic activities. Tourism is a multifaceted activity and one of the most complex businesses with regard to human geography. The effect of climate on tourism demand and satisfaction of tourists make up this factor as one of the most important factors influencing decisions to be considered for planning and choice of residence. One of the factors affecting the life, welfare and human health, atmospheric and climatic conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate the tourism climate index (TCI) of the stations separately each month (1970 to 2013).For this purpose, the daily statistics of the parameters (maximum daily temperature, minimum relative humidity, daily mean temperature, mean relative humidity, total precipitation, average number of sunny days and average wind speed of other information) is extracted from the database for each month Meteorological Organization TCI index was calculated separately in the course of 36 years. Test for trend analysis of these indicators - Kendall and Sen's stick. The results of this study show that the tourism climatic index of the station in February, June and October, the trend is positive and significant
Saeid Safari; Maliheh Mohammad Mirzaei Bafghi
Volume 9, Issue 26 , July 2014, , Pages 131-147
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The changing nature of the tourism industry, with its move awayfrom mass tourism towards greater market segmentation, use of newtechnologies, differentiation of the product and adoption of newmanagement styles, demands a change in the substance of tourisminstitutes policies. This article reviews the ...
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The changing nature of the tourism industry, with its move awayfrom mass tourism towards greater market segmentation, use of newtechnologies, differentiation of the product and adoption of newmanagement styles, demands a change in the substance of tourisminstitutes policies. This article reviews the development of tourismpolicy from pure promotion to product development to the currentgoal of maintaining competitiveness. It argues for a more balancedgrowth between facilities and tourists' interest and discusses variousplans that may serve as attraction for tourists in Yazd city as casestudy. In this study researcher surveys 2 groups of people involved intourism industry in order to find out their attitudes or opinionsfacilities and possible procedures to improve the quality and quantityof services. Researcher concentrates on the opportunities available andthe needs which can be meet by entrepreneurs. The research uses "TheOpportunity Algorithm" which offers by Anthony Ul wick as a basefor comparing and evaluating the Opportunities. According to thisalgorithm, each opportunity evaluates by the formula: [Importance +(Importance – Satisfaction)]. In final conclusion, most importantneeds and best Opportunities for the tourism industry in Yazd hasintroduced and some propositions has offered. For instance, as one ofthe most important results, it is ascertained that it was neglected toconsider the importance of the entertainment facilities and theexistence of diversity in them.
Hadi Rafiei Darani; Javad Barati
Volume 9, Issue 25 , April 2014, , Pages 106-141
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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 ...
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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.
