Measuring and Analyzing the Impacts of Tourism Growth on Spatial Development of Yasouj City

The Tourism industry in addition to economic efficiency has to cause an inflorescence and a foundation to the sustainable development in different spatial dimensions. In Yasuj city, the growth of tourism, in addition to positive consequences, has created serious challenges for the spatial development of the city. Therefore this study using descriptive-analytical and utilizing field and documentary data, seeks objectives such as study the process of tourists entering (during the years 2001-2016) to the city of Yasuj and then measuring the effects of tourism growth on the spatial development of this city. Therefore, by regression test, using SPSS software, the process of attracting tourists and physical expansion of Yasuj city were measured. The Pearson Correlation Coefficient test is used to measure the relation between the tourism Growth with various indices of physical development of the Yasouj city. Then, using T.test test, the consequences of tourism growth on various economic, social, physical and environmental dimensions have been measured. The results showed that the growth of tourism in the city of Yasuj with a 309 times increase in the number of tourists compared to 2001, has had a significant upward trend. Also the tourism has affected the construction of commercial and accommodation land use and the physical expansion of the Yasouj. So that the total area of tourism-related land uses in 2011, has grown more than 1.25 times compared to 2001. On the other hand, the tourism industry has not have a favorable effect on the economic development of the city. As the results of T.test test showed the tourism growth in the social dimensions has caused a relative increase in the growth of immigration, population, occurrence of social and cultural conflicts and on the other hand has helped the public education and the sense of belonging of the citizens. Also, the effects of the tourism growth in the most environmental components are evaluated unfavorable and destructive. Totally, the negative consequences of the tourism growth of the city of Yasouj have been more than positive ones.