Demand estimates tourism in selected provinces

As an important economic section of high efficiency, tourism has an excellent position in the modern world called Tourism Industry. According to the Iranian tourism attractions, this industry may be considered for moving out of single-product condition and dependency on oil. Therefore, the author intends in this article to show some effective factors on demand of tourism and share of each factor. In this case, 11 tourist provinces in a period of 2005 to 2010 were studied. By linear logarithm function and its estimation in panel data method, it was determined that the traveling costs in destination such as variable of total goods and services used index (SHB) and ratio of price of hotels in that province to the family income of other provinces (NHN), are the most efficient variable in total demands for domestic tourism. In addition, coefficient of variable of total local tourism attractions (TJ) and total tourism and travel agencies (TA) is positive, showing direct relationship of number of domestic passengers and two mentioned variables in that province.