The goal of this research is the evaluation of some of the effective environmental attractions on Khorasan Razavi’s sports tourism development. The research statistical population include of all in charge expert and professors in field of sport and tourism as 120 persons. This research is past-event descriptive that had been performed based on field method. Sampling had been performed as ...

This paper explores the manifold relations among the spatial organization of tourism, the quality of tourism products in heritage cities, and the dynamics of the regional economies. The concept of “vicious circle” describes the self-feeding linkage between the emerging class of excursionist tourists in the later stages of a destination lifecycle, and the decline in a city’s attractiveness. Refe...

Film induced tourism is a recent phenomenon, rising increasing interest in tourism management and promotion. A research project on this topic has been recently investigated at the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua, resulting in the development of a software architecture for the promotion of film-induced tourism, capable of storing and providing rich information about th...

Mobile services find in travel and tourism a challenging arena for application exploitation, which can greatly benefit from the convergent impact of a number of enabling technologies referred to as ambient intelligence. Fulfilling the specific needs of tourists, travelers, and citizens on the move calls for appropriate paradigms to be implemented in key functions like user interfaces, display s...

purpose: religious beliefs of the distant past, had a major role in the establishment and development of human settlements. in order to earn religious tourism and the preservation of cultural heritage is taken into consideration. this paper attempts to influence of presence of religious tourists on the development of rural settlements must be examined from the perspective of the villagers. meth...

Theorizations of gender and race in Latin America have led to wide-ranging views concerning women and men in subaltern groups, whether indigenous or Afro-descendant, rural or urban. Views are similarly wide-ranging when theorizing turns to the implications of tourism development for subaltern peoples in the region. Just as it is customary to emphasize the historically subordinate status of wome...

purpose: suitable site selections to provide the services needed by the tourists, is one of the most important step for tourism planning in the form of tourism villages based on the identification and analysis of the various criteria and indicators. mahabad dam lake as one of the beautiful tourist attractions in western azerbaijan province, attracts many tourists each year especially during the...

Risk is an inherent factor in the traveler's choice of destination. Tourism destinations differ in many aspects including their location, economic condition, cultural and political status and crime. Given such differences, the analysis of destination risk and its dimensions is of substantial interest. The current study explores the risk factors perceived about Iran as a tourism destination usin...