A contextual study investigating the factors affecting the development of tourism facilities and institutions in historical and ancient destinations (Case Study: Al-Shatar city)

The process of the formation of ancient cities in different historical periods and conducting archaeological studies in them can have very important effects on the development of urban tourism in different regions. Dasht al-Shatar is a green area with a pleasant climate and rich soil, which has always been the home of different tribes and human groups since prehistoric times and is one of the significant tourist destinations of Lorestan province. Therefore, the current research was designed with the aim of a contextual study of factors affecting the development of tourism facilities and institutions in the historical and ancient destinations of Al-Shatar city. This research, in terms of developmental-applicative goal, in terms of paradigm in the qualitative research group and in terms of method, it has benefited from the basic theory which is based on the inductive approach. The statistical population consisted of two categories of key informants (experts and tourists inside and outside of this city) who were selected by purposive sampling method, 23 people were selected by snowball method and using in-depth and semi-structured interviews and finally reached Data were collected to theoretical saturation. To analyze the narratives, the open, central and selective threestage coding method was used, and then a basic theory was drawn based on the paradigmatic model of the semantic understanding of factors affecting the development of tourism facilities and institutions in the historical and ancient destinations of Al-Shatar city. The findings showed that the factors affecting the development of tourism facilities and institutions in the historical and ancient destination of the studied area in the order of access categories (transportation, water and electricity and communication and commercial management of the region, infrastructure facilities and facilities (services accommodation and catering: canteens, villas, hotels, apartments and inns), transportation network at the destination, nature tourism environments and parks, rural and nomadic tourism have been important and the most important category (core category) was recognized as "components of tourism structure".