Majid Goodarzi; Masoud Taghvaei; Ali Zangiabadi
Volume 8, Issue 23 , November 2013, Pages 1-25
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Annually, many of tourists travel to other countries in order to cure themselves and enjoy the tourist attractions of the country simultaneously. Currently, this type of tourism is very common and has turned into as asset in the pursuit of sustainable development and economic fertility in most countries. ...
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Annually, many of tourists travel to other countries in order to cure themselves and enjoy the tourist attractions of the country simultaneously. Currently, this type of tourism is very common and has turned into as asset in the pursuit of sustainable development and economic fertility in most countries. Regarding the fact that tourism is a low-cost industry with a relatively good profit, many developing countries have taken advantage of it and planned for its development. In line with what said, the present study aims at investigating and evaluating the impacting factors on the medical tourism development in Shiraz megalopolis. The dominant approach of the study is developmental with a descriptive, analytical methodology based on survey. For analyzing the data and testing the hypotheses, multivariate regression and path analysis were used. The statistical analysis was done by SPSS 19.0 and the map was drawn by Arc GIS. Findings depicted that while all the quality, culture, facilities, possibilities and ICT factors had a direct and positive relationship with the development of medical tourism, price bore a negative and reverse effect on it. In other words, the more prices increased, the less medical tourism developed and vice versa. Path analysis of the above mentioned also showed that all the factors namely, price, quality, culture, facilities, possibilities and ICT, in a direct and indirect way influenced the development of medical tourism in Shiraz.
Mehdi Haghighi Kafash; Davood Sadeghi; Ahad Ghassemi
Volume 8, Issue 23 , November 2013, Pages 27-50
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This research is conducted with the aim of ranking the factors affecting the success of airlines’ strategic alliance, using experts’ points of view. For this purpose, based on the Hoffmann and Schlosser’s (2001) model for "Success Factors of Strategic Alliances", stages of the alliance ...
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This research is conducted with the aim of ranking the factors affecting the success of airlines’ strategic alliance, using experts’ points of view. For this purpose, based on the Hoffmann and Schlosser’s (2001) model for "Success Factors of Strategic Alliances", stages of the alliance evolution and its success factors were determined. Afterwards, the effect of these factors on the index of strategic alliance success and partners' satisfaction, were evaluated using the following criteria: financial success, market success, competitive condition improvement, and sustainability of the alliance. In this regard, points of view of 13 airline experts were sought. The initial questionnaire was formed out of the primary data taken from the interviews and observations, as well as the secondary data from library studies, which provided the tool for assessing the factors with most impact on the success of the airlines’ strategic alliances. Applying AHP, and with the help of the second questionnaire, the mentioned factors were ranked based on their impact on the alliance’s success. The resulted model indicated that the elements of alliance strategy symmetry with organization strategy, top management support, complementary competencies, trust-based mutual relationship, and agreement of fundamental values and objectives, all had an impact on the strategic alliance success or failure. Findings also revealed that the two factors of alliance strategy symmetry with organizational strategy, and the partner selection stage, had the most impact on the success of airlines strategic alliance. It has also been cleared that the market success was the confident criterion for evaluation of airlines alliance success.
behrouz mohammadi Yeganeh; Mohsen Ahadnejad Reveshti; Mania Ebrahimzadeh; Mahdi Cheraghi
Volume 8, Issue 23 , November 2013, Pages 51-69
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Alamvachini ceremony is one of the ancient ritual and local ceremonies in Shaheshahidan village in Guilan province. Despite the reception given for this ceremony from people, infrastructure and facilities are not enough for tourists who visit this event. The purpose of this study is to identify ...
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Alamvachini ceremony is one of the ancient ritual and local ceremonies in Shaheshahidan village in Guilan province. Despite the reception given for this ceremony from people, infrastructure and facilities are not enough for tourists who visit this event. The purpose of this study is to identify the effective factors on attracting tourists to Shaheshahidan village and take part in Alamvachini ceremony. This is an applied research and the method is descriptive – analytic. The study population includes all participants in the event and the sample size is calculated 322 participants using Cochran’s formula. The information has gathered usig library studies, field observation and distribution of questionnaires. For data analysis, method of factor analysis have been used. The results show that economic factors are the most important factors for the development of tourism in Shaheshahidan village. It is proposed that government and private institutes proceed to invest and cooperate to create jobs and increase tourism income that ensure the survival of the event as a cultural heritage of the province.
Ali Khatami Firouzabadi1; Hossein Askaripoor; Ghasem Bakhshandeh
Volume 8, Issue 23 , November 2013, Pages 71-96
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The difference between the Iran’s southern tourism coasts attraction and tourism facilities from one side and varieties of interests of tourists who wants to travel to these coastal lines from another hand increases the anxieties and confusions of tourists in choosing the most favorable tourism ...
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The difference between the Iran’s southern tourism coasts attraction and tourism facilities from one side and varieties of interests of tourists who wants to travel to these coastal lines from another hand increases the anxieties and confusions of tourists in choosing the most favorable tourism coast selection processes. Therefore, the recent project goals with offering travel pattern to south coastal lines collects data from 71 experienced people and 403 tourists chosen by judgmentally selection ,then has compared and ranked the six southern tourism coasts in Iran)Chabahar, Bandar-e Abbas, Kish, Qeshm, Bushehr and Ahvaz( according to attractions and tourism facilities by AHP method and EC software. In achieved pattern, the rank of each coast is determined in different criteria and Kish was known as the best tourism coast, and Chabahar, Qeshm, Bandar-e Abbas, Bushehr and Ahvaz are ranked respectively. At the end, the results were described to tourists, travel agencies and coastal city managers
Davood Kia Kojori; Seyyed Mohammad Mirtaghiyan Roudsary
Volume 8, Issue 23 , November 2013, Pages 97-129
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Travel for Treatment and Recovery is one of the most important of tourism objectives. Preventive tourism is one of the branches of health tourism, which in it, traveling is done so that it can use for natural resources with porpuse on it that it can prevent physical and mental problems. This study, is ...
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Travel for Treatment and Recovery is one of the most important of tourism objectives. Preventive tourism is one of the branches of health tourism, which in it, traveling is done so that it can use for natural resources with porpuse on it that it can prevent physical and mental problems. This study, is formed by based on strategic planning process and offering techniques, with the main porpuse of identifying and Prioritizing of appropriate strategies of Ramsar’s minral water springs.this study is applied, based on conclusion and it is descriptive-case, terms of nature of study and it is non- experimental- survey according to feature of study of Experimental and non-experimental. Implement of collection of data, had been questionaires with reliability coefficient 0.8 and statistical society of this study, constituted of a total of 45 from experts, officials and local experts in the tourism field of Ramsar. To determine the sample size, because of statistic, all of the statistical society, those are 45 people; they are used for a sample. Result of internal factors evaluation(IFE) matrix (3.62) and External factors evaluation(EFE) matrix (3.51), was outcome and with using SWOT, were determined the four strategies and using Internal External(IE) matrix were determined strategic location of Ramsar mineral water springs tourism. The results of the study imply that, by reason of the internal external matrix situation, aggressive- development strategy is the most appropriate of practices and performance effective management, and also, Were presented aggressive- development strategy in the form of Conclusions and practical suggestions by the use of a quantitative matrix of strategic planning (QSPM), that can be improve aggressive position of the Ramsar spas tourism.
Saeed DaiKarimzadeh; Sara Ghobadi; Nasim Foroudastan
Volume 8, Issue 23 , November 2013, Pages 131-154
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Iran is one of the countries that so far from its potential in tourism is not used in an appropriate manner. One of the principles of tourism development is the tourism demand. This study examines factors influencing demand for international tourism in Iran. For this purpose, the number of incoming tourists ...
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Iran is one of the countries that so far from its potential in tourism is not used in an appropriate manner. One of the principles of tourism development is the tourism demand. This study examines factors influencing demand for international tourism in Iran. For this purpose, the number of incoming tourists to Iran has been used as dependent variable of international tourism demand. The effect of real income per capita of ten countries with the highest number of inbound tourists to Iran, Consumer price index for goods and services in Iran, market exchange rate, degree of economic openness and the dummy variable of Islamic revolution and war as the independent variable on the dependent variable is estimated. For this estimation Autoregressive Distributed Lag model (ARDL) is used. The results show real income per capita, market exchange rate and degree of economic openness variables have positive effect and consumer price index for goods and services in Iran and dummy variable (revolution and war) have negative effect on the number of inbound international tourism to Iran.
Ashraf Sajjadi; Fatemeh Ahmadi
Volume 8, Issue 23 , November 2013, Pages 155-175
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The main purpose of this research was to assess Impact of Rural Tourism (IRT) from viewpoint of rural community. The research instrument was structural questionnaire with close-ended questions, which validity and reliability was confirmed. The target population in this research, includes all rural people ...
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The main purpose of this research was to assess Impact of Rural Tourism (IRT) from viewpoint of rural community. The research instrument was structural questionnaire with close-ended questions, which validity and reliability was confirmed. The target population in this research, includes all rural people in Fooman township of Gilan province (N=96,778) out of which, a number of 198 people were selected as statistical prototypes in a classification sampling method by using Cochran’s table and finally 194 questionnaires were analyzed. The descriptive findings of this study showed that putting the garbage in rural areas and increasing locally government departments were the main IRT that were stated by respondents. By applying Factor Analysis Technique, IRT in Fooman Township were reduced to nine factors. These five factors expressed nearly 72% of the total variance of the variables mso-bidi-language: A
