نشریه گردشگری شهری
سال چهارم شماره 3 (پاییز 1396)

City gate is the first space that the passengers are faced with it on arrival to the city and also, it is a last space that the audience passes it and goes out the city when he wants to get out the city. So, the gate plays a significant role in the creation of subjective memory. In the spaces around the city gate, the natural features of the outside and surrounding spaces of the city and also, the characteristics of the built environment in the city are observable.The space of the city gate must meet various performance and environment quality due to the position that it has so that it to be used in different times and circumstances. In urban tourism, if city gate has favorable environment qualities and various functions, it will be always considered as a hub to attract population. In this study which is applied research and using mixed method, the indicators measuring the functional and social representing qualities are defined by analyzing the scientific content of case study and aforementioned representing qualities of the gates of Baneh City are assessed. In this assessment, z-test was used with the confidence interval of 95% and obtained results were analyzed. Then, to develop the tourism in the city gates of Baneh City, the strategies of improving the physical quality of public space, increasing the inviting feature of gate space, increasing the presence of people in the spaces of gate in different seasons and during a day, Maintaining and improving the safety and security, improving the quality of streets and access, creating mixed land use and compatibility between land-uses, calming the traffic along the routes to the city and increasing the economic efficiency were provided. And finally, special policies were defined for each of strategies to realize them.
City gate is the first space that the passengers are faced with it on arrival to the city and also, it is a last space that the audience passes it and goes out the city when he wants to get out the city. So, the gate plays a significant role in the creation of subjective memory. In the spaces around the city gate, the natural features of the outside and surrounding spaces of the city and also, the characteristics of the built environment in the city are observable.

Nowadays tourism industry is the largest and the most diverse industry,and it is the main source of income, employment,infrastructure and private sector development in developed countries. In the meantime, identification and top tourism selection as the geographical area which one or more,or a series of historical attractions, natural and cultural,provides an incentive for tourists to visit and stay, could be a factor to improve positive competition among the places and be used in strategic planning. once a community becomes a tourist destination,the lives of residents in that community become affected by tourism activities. Over the past several decades interest in tourism as a tool for regional economic development has grown dramatically. Community leaders and economic development specialists have increasingly treated tourism as an important industry that can enhance local employment opportunities, tax-revenues, and economic diversity.Iran is a country with potential to attract a lot of tourists. with this potential we need a good strategic plan to improve tourism industry in different dimensions.The natural environment is crucial to the attractiveness of almost all travel destinations and recreation areas.Natural resources, the ecosystem, and regional ecology provide an important backdrop to commercial service areas.In this research we intend to select top tourism among the identified areas.in order to evaluate tourism places, the important criteria identified by the other researchers are considered and with the aid of multi-approval method based on voting theory, the top tourism region is chosen.Different researchers have been surveyed many studies to examine and locate the tourism places, each researcher do this with different methods, for example using AHP method, fuzzy, GIS, the combination of them and etc.In this paper we use multi-criteria method based on voting system which is based on expert's opinion. In addition to its simplicity, the other advantages of this method is the capability of applying in group decision making in the form of qualitative and quantitative criteria.This paper is based on a case study that is focused on evaluating 11 different regions in Semnan province. Finally Shahmirzad in Semnan and Abr jungle in Shahrud has been chosen as the top tourism regions of this province.

Today spending leisure time has been become a basic need for current human. Leisure activities from part of human activities and it is jointed to national economy and Leisure geography studies the relationship between human with environment in free time. Preliminary leisure programming include identifying facilities and current situation of leisure time in a city. During recent decades, by basic change in urbanization and work concept, how to spend leisure time has been become a necessary need for human societies and an important occupation for social manager and planner, so that in new zoning regulations, establishing leisure space is accepted as a Main land in a city. The current study is practical in an aim and descriptive– analytical in method and practical– theoretical in nature. In this study, it is tried to predict possibility of travel to leisure space with space distribution in Ahvaz by probabilities model of Huff in Arc Gis software environment. The Huff model popularity and longevity can be attributed to its conceptual appeal, relative ease of use, and applicability to a wide range of problems, of which predicting consumer spatial behavior is the most commonly known. This study with use of the huff model responding to this question: What is the probability that a citizen will decide to going to a particular leisure space, given the How distribute leisure facilities at town? the result indicate non- balance in leisure facilities distribution in a city; this issue lead to non– balance in a city; and from this view, citizens leisure behavior in regions level, is a function from how these land are distributed. Finding show that green space , leisure- social, and sport leisure lands with the highest possibility of travel and recreative and educational– leisure land have less attraction, respectively ;and finally, horistical lands have the least possibility of travel. Ahvaz even without special condition in industrial and cities, has been faced by lack of leisure space. Therefor there basic scientific and practical research will be perfomed for policy making and programing to improve and enhance the existing (current) situation and conscious management of this space.

The tourism industry, one of the largest industries in the world, so in the past few decades, increasing tourism is the major industry in the world faster. Various countries are trying to extend the tourism business in their countries and attract more and more international tourists they execute a series of accurate scheme to gain it,s income and advantages. For the better development of tourism need proper planning are enjoying a Today, in the planning of tourism development, future studies using new methods, especially scenario due to flexible strategies to resolve land issues is very helpful. Future Studies as a method Scenario Writing tools for policy analysis and understanding the situation, threats, opportunities, needs and values the future premier. So, this research,s subject is composing scenarios of effective factors on tourism Developement of west Azer baijan by wizard scenario. This research is applied and the way that they survey is done by ways of future research and it is probative. In this research. According to it,s essence, necessary information gather by 2 1. Library research method 2. Questionnaire method. Giren that, they use MicMac software and Wizard Scenario for analyzing data, matrix questionnaire has mutual effects and it is according to the ideas of experts. Results of MicMac software, as the most important factor determining factors were identified. was recognizing 14 factors that was decreased to 12 factors. According to the chosen factors, there is 37 different situations for them. Scenario Wizard output scenarios are: 4 scenarios with Strong Consistency, 1600 scenarios with Weak consistency and 672 scenarios with Max. inconsistency. The results show four scenarios more likely to occur in the future tourism development in the province. Of the four scenarios, the first scenario favorable conditions and ideal (scenario Promoter), In this scenario, positive trends are all key factors and positive change over time in the development of tourism in the province. scenario 2 scenario is relatively favorable and the intermediate and scenario number three and four situations unfavorable for the future status of the Province shows. These two scenarios are positive and favorable key factor. As a result, the prospect of these two scenarios would be indicative of a state of passive tourism.

City Rivers are a part of urban natural body and the bed of linking of urban life to nature. Construction of buildings in nearness of rivers and even on their beds, unbalanced natural process in them. Planning for them as the places of leisure and tourism, can contribute to the improvement of environmental conditions and tourism prosperity. Although the City Rivers can supply many needs in the cities, failing appropriate planning they will be one of potentials for floods. Herein there should be plans which preserve the balance of these ecosystems, the integrity of these natural corridors and their correlations with the cities. Urban tourism consists of each recreational activities that have been done in cities. The cities are not only the regional economic, cultural and political centers but also the regional tourism centers. Today people work harder because of insecurity of jobs and they prefer short trips to a long holiday. So they want the destinations that are accessible. City Rivers can be one of the centers where people can use for their leisure time. This research, based on the studies on Farahzad City River in Tehran, is going to assess the roles of city river restoration in developing of urban tourism. The type of the research is applied and its method is descriptive-analytical and correlation. Our Statistical society is people who visit the area for recreation. Because of the lack of a clear framework and lack of accurate statistics, the number of samples based on consultation with a number of professors, 350 were selected. Required information was collected through the library studies, direct observations, interviews and questionnaires. The main tool for data collection was a researcher-designed questionnaire. The data collected through questionnaires after coding and transferring to the SPSS software were analyzed. For analyzing them, statistical methods such as Mean, Percent, Standard Deviation, Coefficient of Correlation and Simple Linear Regression Tests have been used. The results of the study show the restoration of Farahzad City River has contributed to urban tourism prosperity and has developed it. Nevertheless, field observations and interviews show sustainable urban development hasn’t emerged yet.

Historical centers of Iran cities is The most important tourist attraction of these cities. In fact, distinctions and unique local, historical and cultural characteristics of cities should be searched In the historical texture, and Physical Impacts and semantic that have left in it. But urban system have Many problems in historical texture, historical texture is one of the valuable pillars and Creative identity In cities. In this regard, urban management system needs to identify and explain the problems with urban systems. Since the implementation of any plan or program is primarily needed to identify bottlenecks and opportunities, set goals, strategies and politics. The aim of this paper is to identify opportunities and threats in the historical texture of culture led regeneration approach And achieve the extraction strategies, and policies to restore For this purpose, after the introduction of the historical Centr of Maragheh, The main components of the Restoration of historical urban spaces have been evaluated in the form of SWOT matrix within the historical texture limits, .Then, since all strategies are not applicable equally. so, prioritized strategies by using electre method based on the principles and criteria of strategic management, through questionnaire studies of urban authorities and experts, The strategies are as follows: 1- Conversion of historic buildings to places that used by tourists (hotel, restaurant and museum) 2. Change the combination of activity and replacement with tourism and hospitality activities. 3. organization of market activity and Restructuring markets; haveThe highest priority to restore.

Tourism industry, as a healthy and profitable industry, has inevitable effect on the social, cultural and economic welfare of every region. These conditions are considerable in areas that have suitable capacity related to tourism. Hamadan province, which is known as historical capital of Iran, is one of these areas that by employing more than 22000 people in tourism section, has special position in the country. For this reason, province and country authorities are trying to extend this condition and to use potential capacities. One of emphasized parts in this regard is demand management in tourism industry that due to its complex structure, few researchers has dealt with it. Therefore, this study aims to estimate tourism demand of Hamadan city and to calculate income elasticity of tourism demand. This is descriptive analytical research and required data have been gathered from 100-tourist sample. For data analysis, in addition to using capabilities of SPSS software, single equation models were used. Single equation models are used when the purpose is estimating demand function for a certain product. If the purpose is estimating demand function of a group of goods and services, system form will be used. In fact, share of each good from total budget of domestic travel with tourism goal is calculated by AIDS model In this research, regression of budget contribution WI for 5 goods accommodation, traffic fines, tolls, fuel cost and visiting sites are separately estimated and after estimating regressions, demand income and price elasticity are calculated. Results showed that income elasticity for Hamadan for accommodation, traffic fines, tolls, fuel cost and visiting sites are 1.39, 1.13, 1.11, 0.61 and 0.26, respectively and mean of this amount for tourism destination was 0.69. Besides, price elasticity for Hamadan is -0.19. Therefore, Hamadan tourists does not include all social classes. Results of cost elasticity shows that accommodation, fines and fuel cost with income elasticity higher than 1 are determined as luxury goods and tolls and cost of visiting sites are basic goods. Generally, and based on price elasticity, it is recommended that for improving tourism, this city should moderate price factors in tourism.