Zahra Bahari Sejehroudi; Mohammad Taleei
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Today, tourism is considered as one of the economic resources, especially in countries with a cultural history and numerous tourist attractions.In this regard, tourist advisory systems have been designed to help tourists. Planning tourism prior to traveling, allows a person to have a better visit and ...
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Today, tourism is considered as one of the economic resources, especially in countries with a cultural history and numerous tourist attractions.In this regard, tourist advisory systems have been designed to help tourists. Planning tourism prior to traveling, allows a person to have a better visit and see more places. Therefore, it is necessary and inevitable to do so. Various and numerous factors are involved in tourism planning. Time management and the selection of tourist attractions in accordance with one's interests are among the most important of these factors. In the present article, a web-based tourism planning system was designed and implemented to help tourists to visit favorite attractions in the shortest time possible. In the development of this system, the integration of methods based on spatial decision-making support system and spatial analysis functions have been used. The criteria taken into account in it, include criteria related to geotourism and effective geological factors and other types of tourism. The designed system carries out the tourism planning through information such as interests, number of days and the starting location of the tourist for each day separately and together with the presentation of the daily tourist plan, it determines the best route between the selected locations, and performs both the spatial and temporal management simultaneously. This system was implemented for Tehran's tourist sites and its capabilities were evaluated.
Reza Mansouri; Ezzatollah Ghanavati; Mohammad Reza Servati
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The vast country of Iran has diverse geographical conditions with 11 out of 13 known climates in theworld. This hasresulted in many environmental,ecotourist, recreational, and economic capabilities. The tourist infrastructure of any region is the nature of that area and as one of its parts,geotourism ...
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The vast country of Iran has diverse geographical conditions with 11 out of 13 known climates in theworld. This hasresulted in many environmental,ecotourist, recreational, and economic capabilities. The tourist infrastructure of any region is the nature of that area and as one of its parts,geotourism has in recent years, experienced a dramatic and significant upsurge in the world and has had a great influence on regional development. Geomorphological and geological visit is one of the main aspects of Geotourism. Ilam province with a surface area of 19,086 KM2ranges from 31 deg. 58 min. to 34 deg. 15 min. North Latitude from the Equator and 45 deg. 24 min. to 48 deg. 10 min. East Longitude from the Greenwich. The province is considered as one of the most prone areas for development of geotourism with its geotourist, geomorphological and geological attractions such as caves, mountains, rivers, waterfalls and springs. In this regard, attention to the natural capacities, conservation, presentation and utilization of geotourism attractions can play an important role in the sustainable development of the province,while it can be effective in solving problems such as unemployment and creation of employment in the province.This research studies the characteristics of Ilam province in a library, field, descriptive - analytical method and by using maps and satellite images,
Mohammad Hosein Ramesht; Ozra Daneshi Maskooni
Volume 23, SEPEHR , July 2014, , Pages 41-47
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Nature tourism which is referred to as ecotourism, is a kind of tourism in which the tourists visit natural landscape without damaging nature. Geotourism or geological tourism is an ecotourism-related field which introduces geological phenomena to tourists while sustaining spatial identity. Geotourists ...
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Nature tourism which is referred to as ecotourism, is a kind of tourism in which the tourists visit natural landscape without damaging nature. Geotourism or geological tourism is an ecotourism-related field which introduces geological phenomena to tourists while sustaining spatial identity. Geotourists seeks to visit geomorphological attractions, ancient anthropological findings, caves, mine attractions, and etc. Comprehensive identification of prone areas for Nature and geological tourism and a precise planning to find resources of these areas are among necessary solutions for developing tourism industry. The present article seeks to investigate morphological forms and procedures influencing tourism in Kerman, recognize tourism attractions, and determine spatial priorities for selecting appropriate places to build tourism attractions in the area. Applied and descriptive-analytic research method is used. The study observes, describes and defines different parts of the area and it is performed as a secondary research and field study. In the present article, locating ecotourism in Kerman province is performed using citation method. A comprehensive view of different parts of the province and unique attractions of the area are presented, so that we can use available potentials to attract tourists. Kerman province is introduced as one of the most attractive places in regard to Nature tourism.
Somayyeh Khosravi
Volume 21, SEPEHR , February 2013, , Pages 43-47
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Abyane, Masule, Kandovan and Meymand are four historical and exceptional villages who Iran beautiful and historical landscapes which can be investigated due to their.
Abyane village is located in the skirts of Karkas Mountain, 40 kilometer North West of Natanz and 70 kilometers South of Kashan in Isfahan ...
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Abyane, Masule, Kandovan and Meymand are four historical and exceptional villages who Iran beautiful and historical landscapes which can be investigated due to their.
Abyane village is located in the skirts of Karkas Mountain, 40 kilometer North West of Natanz and 70 kilometers South of Kashan in Isfahan province. This village should be regarded as one of the most exceptional villages of Iran, due to its diverse historical buildings. The architecture and texture of buildings in Abyane are inspired by natural and geological features of the area. The magnificence of local and beautiful architecture has made Abyane one of the exceptional attractions of the world. Abyane has a beautiful landscape, good climate and favorable natural position. It is located in the skirts of Karkas Mountain, one of mountain ranges in central Iran. Regarding form and structure, Abyane valley is a wrinkled area with multiple mountain ranges, generally in South West to North West direction. Abyane is surrounded by mountains. The present study evaluates geotourism potentials in Abyane village using geological and geomorphological maps of Abyane valley.
Mahdi Ahmadi; Omid Ebrahimi; Arman Gheisvandi
Volume 21, Issue 82 , September 2012, , Pages 104-109
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Tourism development in deprived regions with necessary tourism potentials is a strategy which has recently attracted the attention of different countries of the world. In different parts of the world, preserving the environment, ecosystem and the wildlife are considered important. The present article ...
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Tourism development in deprived regions with necessary tourism potentials is a strategy which has recently attracted the attention of different countries of the world. In different parts of the world, preserving the environment, ecosystem and the wildlife are considered important. The present article investigates geomorphology of Ilam Province in Western parts of the country emphasizing on geotourism resources. Geomorphologic diversity of the province have created unmatched resources in geotourism which are able to turn the Province into a tourist attraction. The present study identifies geologic and geomorphologic characteristics of straits in this Province and provides necessary solutions for using this valuable resource. Moreover, it identifies unique features of this landforms emphasizing on their attraction.
Reza Kheirkhah
Volume 19, Issue 73 , May 2010, , Pages 53-59
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Tourism in today's world is being pursued with various goals and purposes such as the exchange of information and culture, pilgrimage, increasing knowledge, awareness of past societies and spending leisure time, and it daily rises in importance in everyday economic, social and international structures. ...
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Tourism in today's world is being pursued with various goals and purposes such as the exchange of information and culture, pilgrimage, increasing knowledge, awareness of past societies and spending leisure time, and it daily rises in importance in everyday economic, social and international structures. One of the important branches of tourism, which is nowadays very much considered, is geotourism. In fact, geotourism or geographic tourism is one of the special fields of ecotourism that introduces geological and geomorphologic phenomena and features to tourists and preserves their local identity. Due to the availability of sufficient resources, both natural and human, salt pans (kavir) can be considered as one of the focal points of geotourism in each region, and in addition to strengthening the ecotourism dimensions of the area, they can balance the economic growth around them. Having two large Markazi (central) and lout salt pans, Iran has one of the richest ecotourism and geotourism potentials in the Middle East. One of the most beautiful areas of Iran's salt pan is Maranjab area, located on the western border of Kavir Plain in Aran and Bidgol. This area has a diverse nature of desert and salt pan, many beautiful phenomena and numerous attractions. Among the geotouristic attractions of this area are: Maranjab inn, salt lake, Sargardan (wandering) island and sandy hills. The purpose of this article was to investigate the potentials and capabilities of geotourism in the Maranjab area and the type of study was descriptive-documentary. In preparing this paper, secondary sources including books, research reports and dissertations have been used and the results of field surveys, observations, etc. have been used to complement it with practical data. Finally, the author, based on the presentations, concludes the discussion and proposes appropriate strategies for developing the tourism industry in the Maranjab region, which can be generalized for other kavir districts.
Mehran Maghsoudi; Bahram Nekouei Sadri
Volume 16, Issue 64 , February 2008, , Pages 61-64
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Geotourism, as a subcategory of ecotourism, has, along with other tourism areas such as rural, cultural, etc., a potential for employment of a great number of related professionals. This industry can have an effective role in the economic development of the country, which is why tourism industry is considered ...
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Geotourism, as a subcategory of ecotourism, has, along with other tourism areas such as rural, cultural, etc., a potential for employment of a great number of related professionals. This industry can have an effective role in the economic development of the country, which is why tourism industry is considered the most important industry in the world. Of course, the idea of a large number of experts and non-experts concerning tourism industry is merely recreational tourism, which is contrary to the new perspective of the subject in the world. In fact, today in many cases tourists from advanced societies are looking for science, culture, and ecological, geomorphologic and geologic attractions. It is worth noting that this industry is still not well known in Iran and potential capabilities of Iran have not yet been evaluated in this regard. With a variety of geomorphologic and geological structures, Iran has a wide variety in this regard and calls for new grounds in the field of tourism industry in the country. According to the abovementioned matters, the identification and marketing of geotourism and ecotourism phenomena in Iran in order to exploit this great potential is unavoidable. In this article, while studying concepts and dimensions of geotourism, it is tried to discuss some of the geotourist general qualities and attractions of Iran.
