جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Damavand county » در نشریات گروه « جغرافیا »

As one of the pillars of tourism, geotourism plays an important role in the economic development of regions. Due to its location in the southern slopes of Alborz and its hydro-climatic situation as well as its political position (close to Tehran), Damavand County has a high potential for the development of geotourism, and for this reason, in this research, the geotourism capabilities of this city are evaluated. Been paid. This research is based on descriptive-analytical methods. In this research, library information, information obtained from field visits, a 30-meter high digital model, and different layers of information have been used as research data. Also, in this research, Zouros and Comanescu methods have been used to evaluate geosites. This research has been done in two general stages, in the first stage, the susceptible geosites of Damavand city have been identified, and in the second stage, they have been evaluated using the Zouros and Comanescu methods. Based on the results of the Zouros method, the Keilan Valley geosite has the highest score with 68 points, and the Masha plain geosite has the highest score with 68 points in the Comanescu method. In total, the results of two methods (average points) have shown that Keilan Valley and Masha plain have the highest points with an average of 67.5 points and are considered as the most valuable geosites of Damavand County. After these geosites, the geosites of Tar and Huyer lakes and Chenar flight site have the highest points with an average of 65.5 points.

Rural-urban flows, according to Douglas's theory, include the flow of people, capital, goods, information, and technology. These currents over time are considered as the fundamental factors of social changes in rural settlements. Therefore, spatial flows are a capacity that causes consistent change in the social dimension of rural settlements. However, if these flows are neglected in planning; And dualism in urban and rural planning system. Spatial flows will not, as they should, bring about adaptive changes in the social dimension of the rural settlements in the study area. Based on this, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating this issue in a quantitative manner and using a descriptive-analytical method in 370 random sample households and in 29 sample villages out of a total of 83 villages in Damavand city. Findings of the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between spatial flows and social dimension in the studied villages. Thus, in order to improve the impact of all dimensions of spatial flows on the social developments of rural settlements, it is suggested to pay attention to the integrated rural-urban planning approach instead of separate rural-urban planning

The purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of rural-urban flows on the economic developments of rural settlements. Therefore, spatial flows affecting the economic dimension of rural settlements in Damavand city have been studied and studied, in other words, analyzed. Since the effective factors affecting the economic dimension of rural settlements can be considered as the relations of the three elements of man, space and human activities in space and in general spatial flows, if these flows are properly planned and accurately. To be established, it will bring about a consistent transformation on the economic dimension of rural settlements. Rural-urban flows, according to Douglas theory, include flows of people, capital, goods, information, and technology. These currents over time are considered as the fundamental factors of economic transformation and transformation of rural settlements. Therefore, spatial flows are a capacity that causes a consistent transformation in the economic dimension of rural settlements on both sides of this flow. However, if these plans are ignored and neglected in planning; Incompatibility changes will be formed in the economic dimension of rural settlements and duplication will be done in the urban and rural planning system. Create the study area. Based on this, the present study was conducted with the aim of analysis and study of this research topic in a quantitative manner and using descriptive-analytical method in 370 random sample households and in 29 sample villages out of 83 villages of Damavand city. The findings of the study reveal that there is a significant relationship between spatial flows and the economic dimension in the studied villages. Thus, in order to improve the impact of all dimensions of spatial flows on the economic developments of rural settlements, it is suggested to pay attention to the integrated rural-urban planning approach instead of separate rural-urban planning.

Located in a natural environment and lifestyle of rural villages tourism opportunities in rural areas creates indoor and outdoor promenades (Taj, 1381:23). Thus the village territory offered a variety of activities and attractions (Javan, 1385). These natural and cultural resources and historical attractions to be considered as powerful incentive to visit rural areas and valuable tourist destinations. The present study aims to identify priority factors affecting rural destinations attract tourists to the Damavand county in Tehran province has 39 villages of more than 100 people were. To analyses the data both descriptive and inferential statistics were used. 6 villages as the sample size was calculated using the formula Cochrane. The selection of villages were through randomly action equity interval method and considering unlimited number of tourists visiting the villages and so 350 people were questioning. The results of hypothesis testing using t-test showed that there is a Significant relationship between four variables (second home ownership Or stay in - Ease of access and quality of facilities path- Attractions and natural resources and Attractions and historical- cultural resources) and tourists attraction to the villages .

The sustainability approach to development issues and its application to rural tourism have been adopted by many scholars concerning conservation of economy and environment. it is believed that tourism and recreation industry is increasingly becoming as an important component of the structure of rural communities and it thus indirectly considers rural sustainability. Tourism development in rural areas has implications whose undesirable impacts can lead to having unsustainable natural and human ecosystems in these areas. So, it is impossible to develop tourism activities disregarding sustainability issues. In this respect, it is noteworthy that tourism development requires assessing sustainability level and analyzing factors effective on sustainability and unsustainability of tourism and, in turn, requires a holistic and comprehensive approach. So, sustainable development of tourism is a holistic and integrated strategy arising in response to ineffectiveness of previous strategies and it is nowadays admitted as a fundamental approach to tourism development. So in this paper, we, accordingly, supposing sustainable development of tourism as our basic approach, consider assessing sustainability of tourism in rural areas of the central district of Damavand county in a mountainous area in north of Iran. This research is practical in scope and is descriptive and analytical in its method. The required data has been accomplished using library and field study methods that the latter one uses questionnaires as its basic tool. In this survey, we selected 6 villages as study sample and measures in this selection were villages having at least 50 households, numbers of populations, local administrations and spatial locations of villages. Statistical population in clouded local residents, local managers and tourists. In questionnaire method, we selected 180 householders (10 percent of total households’ population), 18 local managers (3 local managers or members of village council in every village) and 180 tourists as our sample size. We selected the indexes and indicators of tourism sustainability using Delphi method and according to scholars and specialists’ point of views. In order to analyze of data, we also used both statistical methods (descriptive and inferential statistics) and non-statistical methods including sustainability barometer and sustainability radar. Results attained about sustainability of tourism using barometer method in terms of the two macro-systems of human welfare and ecosystem welfare, show that the score for the index of human welfare is 0.404 and that for the index of ecosystem welfare is 0.338. It is suggested that in this research, the economic and sociocultural indexes are bigger than environmental indexes due to inappropriate impacts of tourism on environmental resources and their incurred pollutions. The score of sustainability of tourism for each village show that for human welfare index, the most and the least scores are respectively corresponded to Mosha and Hesar-e-Paein villages and for ecosystem welfare index, the most and the least scores are respectively corresponded in Ainehvarzan and Hesar-e-Paein villages. In general, the sustainable tourism in villages of Mosha, Sarbandan and Ainehvarzan has an average level, in village of Hesar-e-Paein has a low level and in villages Meray and Hesar-e-Paein villages has an unstable level. Also results show that in terms of sustainability status, there are significant differences between our case study villages. In this respect, it was known that distances of the villages from Tehran metropolis, their numbers of populations and the number of tourists in every are the factors influencing the levels of sustainability of tourism in such a way that the more distance from Tehran and the more number of tourists, the more amount of sustainability of tourism in the villages. Sustainable development of tourism is a new approach which introduced in the late 1980s in response of ineffectiveness of all previous approaches to tourism and it is nowadays one of prominent approaches attracted related specialists and planners. In this respect, undesirable impacts of tourism in rural areas have led to arising sustainable approach to rural tourism and explaining sustainability level and effective factors of tourism sustainability in this regard, is of high importance. So in this paper, we aimed at assessing tourism sustainability status in rural areas of central district of Damavand county and our results showed that sustainability of studied villages has a weak level. The studying sustainability status of each of indexes suggested that sustainability levels of all indexes are under the average level and indexes including income, investment and host community satisfaction have the most sustainability score respectively and that the index of land resources assigns the least sustainability level to itself. So we concluded that tourism development has, in some extent, sacrificed natural landscapes, wildlife and natural resources for constructions, land use, excessive resources exploitation by residents and uncontrolled constructions. In general, this study showed that there is no due attention paid to sustainability of tourism and there is a long road before to the sustainable tourism. It is thus necessary taking concrete measures in order to achieve sustainable tourism.Sustainable development of tourism is a new approach which introduced in the late 1980s in response of ineffectiveness of all previous approaches to tourism and it is nowadays one of prominent approaches attracted related specialists and planners. In this respect, undesirable impacts of tourism in rural areas have led to arising sustainable approach to rural tourism and explaining sustainability level and effective factors of tourism sustainability in this regard, is of high importance. So in this paper, we aimed at assessing tourism sustainability status in rural areas of central district of Damavand county and our results showed that sustainability of studied villages has a weak level. The studying sustainability status of each of indexes suggested that sustainability levels of all indexes are under the average level and indexes including income, investment and host community satisfaction have the most sustainability score respectively and that the index of land resources assigns the least sustainability level to itself. So we concluded that tourism development has, in some extent, sacrificed natural landscapes, wildlife and natural resources for constructions, land use, excessive resources exploitation by residents and uncontrolled constructions.