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Given the significance of the Arbaeen event as one of the most important religious tourism events for Shiites, the present study aims to explore the contexts and reasons for the enthusiastic participation of Iranian Shiites, as well as their experiences and perceptions of this activity, using a social interpretive approach. The research methodology is qualitative. Data was collected using conventional methods in ethnography and analyzed through grounded theory. The research results indicate that factors such as the inefficiency of the internal decision-making system, due to the government’s and administrative system’s encounters with various crises in political, economic, social, and cultural domains, and social inequality, play roles in the participation in this event. This inequality is interpreted by participants as a sense of religious discrimination and a lack of rights. The semantic reconstruction of the pilgrims’ experience and understanding of participating in this event serves as a channel for social participation and solidarity, cultural change, and a communication bridge between stakeholders and executive officials. The core category suggests that the Arbaeen pilgrimage event acts as an alternative to existing constraints.

The shrine of the Eighth Shiite Imam in Mashhad, the most prominent religious and pilgrimage site in Iran, attracts numerous domestic and international tourists annually. The Noghan neighborhood, with its rich historical and cultural background, is one of the most notable areas adjacent to the Razavi Shrine, continually drawing the attention of pilgrims and tourists. The implementation of renovation plans with a singular focus on the concept of pilgrimage as the primary objective, neglecting the historical and religious identity capacities of the area, has legitimized the reconstruction approach. This approach, by reducing the concept of pilgrimage and the sacred realm to a simple stay-visit point, has disregarded or eliminated many of the existing physical-functional capabilities. This study aims to articulate the concept of religious tourism as a holistic and integrative view of the capabilities of historical religious fabrics and the spatial qualities that influence them. A suitable urban design model for the historical Noghan neighborhood is presented to enhance religious tourism as an exemplary case. The research methodology is both qualitative and quantitative, and in terms of its objective, it falls under applied research. To collect data, reputable scientific sources and the opinions of urban design experts were utilized, and the results were evaluated using content analysis techniques. The research findings indicate that enhancing religious tourism through design-oriented interventions can play a win-win role in modernizing historical cities. In the derived design model, the functional, physical, movement, and accessibility dimensions of the existing urban fabric, respectively, had the most significant impact on enhancing the status of religious tourism in the historical Noghan neighborhood.

For a long time, road hazards in various forms have been one of the major issues and problems associated with travel. Today, with the development of road transportation and the expansion of road networks, there has been a fundamental transformation in travel quality, leading to an increase in travel demand for various purposes. Despite the numerous benefits derived from the growth of tourism, the issue of road accidents, which impose significant material and spiritual losses, has emerged. Annually, these accidents impose substantial costs on various societies, especially in developing countries. One of the largest segments of the travel market in Muslim countries, including Iran, is religious tourism. Part of this travel in Iran involves Shia Muslims visiting religious sites in Iraq. With the end of the Iran-Iraq war and the improvement in relations between these two countries, the volume of such travel has increased. A significant portion of this travel occurs via the Karbala Highway, which serves as the main route connecting Iran to religious sites in Iraq, linking Tehran to the Iraqi borders through Saveh, Hamedan, Kermanshah, and Qasr-e Shirin.In this applied research, the researcher focuses on a section of this highway within the jurisdiction of Hamedan, based on accident statistics from the years 2012-2013 (1391-1392 in the Iranian calendar). Using data published by the road police regarding accidents resulting in injuries and fatalities, combined with field observations, these points were identified on aerial photographs and analyzed using ARC GIS software. The study identifies safe and accident-prone zones on the highway and offers key solutions for reducing road accidents, aiming to promote religious tourism.

Today, tourism is one of the leading sectors in the global economy and includes a huge source of income, job creation, cultural exchanges, etc. On the other hand; Tourism managers believe; Human resources and its management is an effective factor in success, therefore; The city of Kerman, having a vast historical background, is now one of the effective bases of the discourse of Islamic resistance and the burial place of General Martyr Soleimani; It can accommodate historical-religious tourists.

The method of this research is descriptive-survey of correlation type. In the qualitative part, the cultural dimensions of the discourse of Islamic resistance are known using the exploratory approach. The statistical population includes all managers, employees and tourism activists of Kerman city, which due to the high volume of the population using Cochran's formula and at the error level of 5. The number of statistical sample is estimated to be 384 people. SPSS software was used in the descriptive statistics section and PLS software was used for confirmatory factor analysis so that the data could be properly analyzed. MAXQDA software has also been used to achieve the cultural dimensions of the Islamic resistance discourse.

The cultural dimensions of the discourse of Islamic resistance include; Idealism, professional ethics, humility and respect, service, field management, national identity and realism. also; Dimensions of sustainable human resource management include; Health promotion, education, self-responsibility, stakeholder perspective, performance management, competitive advantage and innovation.

There is a positive and significant relationship between the cultural aspects of the discourse of Islamic resistance and sustainable human resource management in the field of religious tourism, therefore; It is suggested that tourism managers use the obtained concepts to introduce Kerman as a world city of resistance and an exemplary model in religious tourism.

The purpose of this study is to present a model of religious tourism based on the art of taziyeh in Kashan based on structural equation modeling, based on a mixed exploratory approach. In the qualitative part, the phenomenological method was used and in the quantitative part, the descriptive method, correlation based on structural equations was used. The statistical population of this research in the qualitative part included professors and experts in tourism and condolence in Kashan, which was obtained after 15 saturated interviews. In order to evaluate the validity of qualitative data, structural, external, descriptive and interpretive validity were used and in order to evaluate the reliability, the three approaches of Rao and Perry (2003) were used. The results of qualitative research were extracted from 11 economic, strategic, development, research, organizational, technical, content, environmental and advertising dimensions. After examining the extraction of components, the quantitative part of the research was examined. Factor and content validity were used to evaluate the validity. The reliability of the questionnaire was used from Cronbach's alpha, which had the necessary reliability. Available was selected. The data obtained from the questionnaires were analyzed at two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics, including structural equations, through SPSS 22, LISREL 18.9 and Warp PLS 5 software. Findings showed that the most impact was economic dimension (impact factor 0.86) followed by cultural dimension with (0.79) and strategic dimension with (0.78).

In today's world, security is considered as the most important factor in the formulation of sustainable tourism development strategies, and is directly related to it. In a way, tourism security can lead to the development of the local economy, increase employment and income levels of indigenous communities, especially in rural areas. The purpose of this study; Assessing the impact of religious tourism on the security of rural environments is in the form of three factors of communication, social and environmental security. The unit of analysis in this study is the village and its statistical population consists of two groups of host community (101 people) and experts (24 people). Therefore, it has been done through a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability have also been confirmed. MABAC and FAHP methods have been used for analysis, weighting and ranking of criteria. The results show that the average score of the impact of religious tourism on local community security at the level of 99% was significant. On the other hand, the security dimension with a weight value of 0.524 and the environmental dimension with a weight value of 0.187 have the highest and lowest importance, respectively. Based on the results of ranking ten villages with high potential for religious tourism, Langar and Hojjatabad villages have the highest and lowest ranks in terms of insecurity, respectively.Keywords: Religious Tourism, Rural Tourism, Tourism Security, MABAC and FAHP Methods.

Without considering their sacred and spiritual characteristics, holy places are an exhibition of art and a symbol of civilization and culture that attract religious tourists. The emigration of Imam reza to iran, as the biggest religious event, has created a spiritual and religious path that can be recognized as the center of religious tourism. The functions and structures of the spiritual(social and cultural) and material (economic and spatial) life of the city arise from this religious-cultural nature. These places are visited with different motivations. The primary goal of this study was to investigate the movement path and direction of imam reza and the development of the tourism industry. This study was conducted using descriptive and analytical methods with a document study tool. The results revealed that according to statistics, more than 300 authorized accommodation units are operating in the nearby city of mashhad, which includes about 70% of all accommodation centers in iran. A glance at the five-year development plans and planning done by the organization of cultural heritage, handicrafts and tourism in iran suggests that the development of tourism in religious destinations has always been the priority of tourism development programs, indicating the special importance of these destinations. Based on the movement path and direction of imam reza, it can be stated that the religious tourism industry is one of the best ways to introduce history, culture, and religious values and the peaceful coexistence of religions among countries. Also, blessed and religious places indicate the customs, beliefs, and thoughts of the people in addition to their sanctity and unique spirituality.

Tourism is now considered as one of the most important income industries of the world. Tourism as one of the main and basic approaches can be used in solving problems resulted from unemployment problems and downturn in different countries and the twenty-year vision of Iran specially consider tourism and attracting tourists. The huge volume of the tourists in the world are religious tourists and most of these religious tourists choose Mehran international border for entry and exit from Iran for doing pilgrimage and their religious affairs due to being safe and vicinity to The Holy of Holies in Iraq. This research aims at designing and explaining religious tourism model in Mehran International Border. Having determining the sample size qualitatively via snowball method, 14 experts of religious tourism including academics and trustees of religious tourism were recognized and they were interviewed directly and the research findings showed that religious tourism pattern in Mehran International Border has six main components including casual conditions (religious and tribal communities, provincial infrastructures, common border of Iraq and vicinity to The Holy of Holies, advertisements) categories (tourism and its subcategories, religious places in Iran and Iraq, security) grounds (commercial free zone in Mehran welfare and health services, economic part of religious tourism), interferer factors (political factors, conveying affairs to non-governmental sector, weather changes), strategies (cooperating with educational centers and universities, increasing governmental investing, using capacities of religious days) consequences & results (income and creating jobs, people’s persistence in border and non-immigration, cultural development of province, destruction of environmental, road and jungles of province) which could be introduced as a proper pattern for religious tourism in Mehran International Border according to the opinion of experts.

Establishing tourism eco-camps is a key strategy for sustainable tourism development, particularly in religious tourism destinations, as it enhances their appeal and economic value while preserving spiritual and historical sites. Weis Al-Qarn, a popular tourist destination in Kermanshah Province, attracts a significant number of visitors annually. Introducing a tourism eco-camp in this area can be a crucial step towards achieving sustainable religious tourism objectives. Hence, this quantitative and applied research aimed to identify an appropriate location for a tourism eco-camp in the tourist area of Weis Al-Qarn in Kermanshah Province. To accomplish this objective, 12 criteria, including elevation, slope, annual solar radiation angle, geology, proximity to landslide areas, distance from the river, distance from roads, land use, vegetation differentiation index, distance from cemeteries, distance from the court of Weis Al-Qarn, and proximity to paragliding sites, were employed. The data analysis involved using the overlay method and the Weighted Sum tool in ArcGIS software. The research findings revealed that out of the total investigated area of 219.39 ha for the tourism eco-camp construction, approximately 32.2 ha were classified as highly suitable, 55.03 ha as suitable, 60.76 ha as moderately suitable, 45.73 ha as unsuitable, and 25.66 ha as highly unsuitable. The highly suitable area was predominantly located in the southern and southeastern parts of the study area with a limited portion in the western section.

Tourism is one of the most prosperous economic activities in the world and is so important in economic and social development of countries that economists have called invisible export. In the meantime, religious tourism, as a pilgrimage among all the international religions, especially the religion of Islam, plays a special place. In this study, the role of factors affecting the increase of religious tourism demand has been investigated. The research is based on a review of findings reported in previous research. Studies have presented a variety of factors that affect the demand for religious tourism, the most important of which could be divided into three groups: infrastructure factors, drivers and barriers to religious tourism. Infrastructure factors include transportation, food and restaurants, services and attractions. Drivers describe existing information (advertising), coordination between related organizations, the appropriateness of route systems, identifying the motivation and beliefs of tourists, online resources, tourism research, tourist safety, accessibility of sites, expansion of spaces and associated facilities. Finally, barriers to religious tourism embrace poor management, lack of a communication network structure, and absence of professional support. 

Religious tourism is one of the growing and changing sectors in the world tourism market) Collins-Kreiner, 2019( and religious motives are still one of the most common reasons for traveling around the world )Sołjan & Liro, 2021). Religious and pilgrimage tourism should contribute to sustainable growth in terms of providing a high level of tourist satisfaction along with meaningful and unique experiences (Lopez, 2013) and helping to preserve natural resources and cultural heritage, as well as the traditional values of communities, thus ensuring long-term economic and social benefits (Roxas et al., 2020).

In this research, according to the different stages of the research, the method of library studies including books, articles, dissertations and Internet search was used. For this purpose, first, studies on religious tourism and the factors affecting it were conducted in books, articles, and especially the empirical background of the research. After that, the theoretical foundations of the research on the subject were extracted and written. Then, all the factors affecting religious tourism, according to the opinion of supervisors and consultants, were classified into three groups: infrastructure factors, effective factors and barriers to religious tourism demand. 

By examining the theoretical foundations and background of the research conducted on the subject of research, various factors were identified as effective factors in attracting religious tourists, including: Transportation, information and advertising, coordination between relevant organizations, food and restaurants, services, accommodation services, lack of specialized support, attractions, appropriateness of communication, understanding the motivation and beliefs of tourists, Internet resources, providing accurate information, tourism research, weakness of specialized management , Ensuring the security of tourists, suitable location and location, expansion of spaces and creation of ancillary facilities, lack of communication network structure. 

Religious tourism, as one of the most important sub-sectors of the large and diverse global tourism industry, has a special place in the economic growth of countries, especially our country. In recent decades, religious tourism has increased in most countries of the world and people have become more interested in visiting religious places and customs of different religions and cultures. Therefore, religious tourism, as a part of the dynamic tourism industry with distinctive and unique features, has an important share of economic and productive activities of developed and developing countries and as one of the most important drivers of economic growth; it is considered in many countries around the world.

Religious tourism is one of the most prosperous and diverse types of tourism in the world. And according to the cultural-religious situations, the accessibility of this type of tourism in Iran sets the stage for growth and development among Islamic countries and the world. This research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive-survey execution method and correlational type, which was carried out by mixed exploratory method. In the qualitative phase, the research team consists of 30 experts and university professors who have been selected using a targeted method and snowball technique. Also, in the quantitative stage, the statistical population consists of tourism experts , whose number is 2948 people, and 341 people were selected by simple random sampling to determine the sample size based on the Karjesi and Morgan table. The tools of data collection are interviews, documents and questionnaires, and the fuzzy Delphi method was used to identify and rank the dimensions and components. Also, the exploratory factor analysis method was used to fit the model. Based on the data analysis, the research findings showed. Ten main dimensions: accommodation, transportation, visiting centers, reception centers, stores, environment and energy, travel agencies and tours, security and safety, management and economy, information and communication, are the most important factors affecting the supply chain in Iran's religious tourism industry.

Tourism is a phenomenon that leads to the strengthening of communication between different cultures. With the common cultural contexts between nations, it is easier to achieve cross-cultural communication during tourism. If tourism has positive cultural effects on tourists, it turns them into indirect missionaries of the host society and ultimately leads to the strengthening of the cultural diplomacy of the host country in the target country. With this definition, tourism can activate many capacities in the field of strengthening the relationship between Iran and Pakistan and creating the strategic depth of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Meanwhile, religious tourism has a significant place among other types for Pakistani audiences.

The present article is applied in terms of the purpose of the study and qualitative in terms of methodology. Using semi-structured interviews, the researcher collected the opinions of experts on this issue and interpreted the obtained findings using thematic analysis method.

The existing capacities in Iranian tourism for Pakistanis (46 capacities in the form of 10 sub-themes), the obstacles to the development of Iranian tourism for Pakistanis (37 obstacles in the form of 7 sub-themes) and the solutions for the development of Iranian tourism for Pakistanis (23 solutions in the format) 6 sub-themes), were identified and induced.

Conclusions and suggestions:

 according to the interpretation of the findings, the potential capacities for the development and improvement of the arrival of Pakistani tourists, the obstacles on the way to the development of this matter and the solutions to remove the obstacles leading to statistics and finally the model of benefiting from this The capacities, its obstacles and solutions that lead to the improvement of Iran's position among the people of Pakistan and in a word to strengthen the cultural diplomacy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in this country were extracted.

originality: 

According to the surveys, very few researches have focused on religious tourism in benefiting from it in the direction of Iran's cultural diplomacy. This issue is particularly novel in the case of our study, namely Pakistani religious tourists.

Religious tourism can bring about major changes in economical, social, and cultural conditions of local communities. Regarded as the greatest social mobility, this industry involves numerous cultural, economical, and formational consequences, constantly requiring its development to be effective in both the past and present. As the most suitable border passage for Arbaeen pilgrimage, the greatest Religious event in the world with millions of pilgrims participating in it, Mehran city allows 70% of holy shrines pilgrims to pass through its borders, proving itself as a city which has a high potential to achieve the regional sustainable future development brought about by religious tourism. Identifying the vital factors and main drivers affecting the future development of religious tourism in Mehran city, is in line with administrating and designing the possible scenarios in the future, policy-making framework, and flexible planning in synchronization with the region's conditions. This research, in terms of practical purpose and descriptive-analytic nature, is based on the desk studies and environmental observations. The data required for this research is selected, categorized, and formulated by utilizing the available studies regarding the future development of religious tourism, and five indexes: economical, social-cultural, management-planning, infrastructural-formational, environmental-geographical factors; then, using the delphi method for managers and elites, the cross-sectional effects matrix was formulated. In the next level, the matrix was analyzed by utilizing softwares such as Mic Mac and scenario wizard. After inspecting the rate and method by which these factors affect each other, and also future development status of the religious tourism, 13 key factors (fund-raising, integrated management, sanctions, weather conditions, tours, removing legal barriers, private sector, economical development, regulations, environmental factors, geopolitical situation, visa, and network connections) that had the most important roles in Mehran city's future development of religious tourism, were selected; then, using the capabilities presented by the scenario wizard 2, 2 strong scenarios, 9999 weak scenarios, and 4 believable scenarios were extracted.

Identifying the behavior of tourists and explaining the behavior of the researchers has been one of the important topics of tourism, and the current goal is to evaluate the factors on the behavior of domestic and foreign tourists of Mashhad with the geographical region.

This research is a descriptive-analytical survey with the aim of developing the regulation and information in the field and using a researcher-made questionnaire. Statistically, there are domestic and foreign tourists, and based on the recorded statistics, the number of incoming tourists in 2018 was 22,025,167 and the number of foreign tourists was 1,239,926. According to Cochran's formula, there were 384 Iranians people as a statistical sample for tourists and 384 people were obtained as a sample of foreign tourists’ statistics and were distributed among the statistical population through random sampling method.

According to the findings of the questionnaires, it was found that the behavior pattern of tourists shows that foreign tourists travel a greater distance from Razavi Holy Shrine (65 km) for tourism elements available around Mashhad city. Therefore, their behavioral pattern is scattered. This is while domestic tourists are mostly located around the Holy Shrine and up to a radius of 30 kilometers from the Razavi Shrine, and their behavioral pattern is clustered around the Shrine of Imam Reza (A.S.).

The results obtained from the analysis of the questionnaires were determined; the economic factor with an average of 3.7 has the greatest impact on the behavior patterns of tourists, and the environmental factor with an average of 2.7 has the lowest value, and among the factors affecting the spatial behavior patterns of foreign tourists, the highest average is related to the socio-cultural factor with 3.3 and the lowest is related to the physical-infrastructural factor with 2.09.

Today, tourism has become one of the largest, most attractive and most profitable industries in the world economy And it is considered the impellent of positive changes in geographical spaces, including urban spaces. Therefore, today in the economy of many countries such as Iran, which depend on the export of a single product such as oil, Tourism development can generate a lot of income. The city of Mehran By having important location and border and customs terminal and the shortest distance from important pilgrimage cities and the political capital of Iraq. are known with the dominant performance of services based on export, import and transportation of goods and passengers; Especially religious tourists for the huge procession of Arbaeen and Atbat - e Aliayat. So that every year more than 70% of several million religious tourists transit From Mehran city for Arbaeen. Therefore, identifying the obstacles and factors preventing the development of religious tourism in this city as the goal of this research is very important for its sustainable physical, economic, socio-cultural and environmental development. This research is descriptive-analytical in quiddity and practical in terms of purpose And the data and information were obtained using the library method and in-depth interview. The method used in this research is "grounded theory" or "contextual theory". The statistical population of this research includes 18 knowledgeable and expert people who were also active in the field of religious tourism and were selected by purposeful sampling. The interview with the target community continued until the saturation limit was reached, and the content analysis method was used to analyze the data. The data obtained from the interview was open, central and selective triple coding and 53 concepts and 8 categories were obtained from the data. The results of this research indicate the existence of a four-dimensional structure that includes obstacles; Economic, socio-cultural, infrastructure-management and environment. The results of this research can help the policy makers to adopt smarter policies and strategies in order to remove the mentioned obstacles for the mutual sustainable development of religious and urban tourism.

The present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of religious events on the choice of tourist destination through the mediation of cultural similarities (case study: Arab-speaking tourists of Mashhad). The statistical population of the research was all the tourists of Qom city in the time frame of the research. The statistical sample size was determined to be 384 people. The sampling method was used due to the improbable limitations of the available corona. The data collection tool is the standard questionnaire of Naini (2008) for the variable of cultural similarities and the standard questionnaire of Bakshizadeh (2008) for the variable of choosing a tourist destination and the standard questionnaire of Zhou (2008) for the variable of religious events. Cronbach's alpha was used for the reliability of the questionnaire and confirmatory factor analysis was used for the construct validity. The results of the research show that religious events have a significant impact on choosing a tourist destination and cultural similarities mediate this relationship.

Religious tourism is one of the most important and prosperous branches of the tourism industry that has had significant effects on various aspects of societies, especially their economics. ا
Aim of the research: The purpose of this article is to introduce and identify religious places and the optimal use of these religious places in order to develop tourism in the city of Rasht.
Research

This article uses a descriptive-analytical method with field studies and statistical population of all residents of Rasht and includes tourism experts, endowment organization, municipality, housing and urban planning, literate people living on the outskirts of religious places. According to Cochran's formula, n = 384 people were selected. The measurement tool was a researcher-made questionnaire, in order to obtain residents' views on the mentioned components, a one-sample t-test was used.
Geographical area of ​​research: Rasht is a city in Gilan province and all its religious places.

Documentary and field studies show that there are many religious places in Rasht that with proper planning and proper publicity can increase the income of city dwellers and the employment of some unemployed youth in this city.

The results obtained from the analysis of various components related to religious tourism such as advertising, city development, barriers, participation, economic dimension, spiritual dimension and capabilities in the city of Rasht show that there is a significant difference between respondents to different options of items. has it.