Evaluating the obstacles related to the development of cultural tourism from the tourists view points. ( Case Study: Khaf County )

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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 14 October 2023   

Document Type: scientific-research article

DOI: 10.22067/jgrd.2023.83781.1314

Authors

Nasraleh Baaqeedeh Roudi¹; katayoon alizadeh^{* 2}; Hamid Jafari²

¹. Ph.D student of Geography, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

²Department of Geography, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

Based on the report of the World Tourism Organization, cultural

tourism is a major part of global tourism. Therefore, it is also very

important from the economic point of view. Considering the cultural

diversity, Iran can be one of the most important forms of tourism

development.On the other hand, tourism is considered as a tool to earn foreign currency and provide the resources needed to transform developing countries dependent on agriculture into

industrial economies. In this research, an attempt was made to identify five indicators including:

the obstacles of government organizations to the development of local

sustainability, obstacles related to infrastructure, tourism facilities,

support and investment resources, marketing, managerial and

executive aspects as obstacles, cultural obstacles, religious obstacles

and Socially obstacles, obstacles related to the lack of specialized

human resources and negative effects on the tourism environment

have been emphasized as an obstacle to tourism development. Field

and library methods were used to collect the data of this research,

which was conducted in a descriptive and analytical way. The

statistical population of the research is the tourists of Khaf city. The

amount of use of Cochran's formula was obtained by 384 people and

the questionnaire was randomly distributed among them.

The data of this research have been analyzed by SPSS and AMOS

software. The findings of the research show that two indicators of infrastructural facilities

and shortage of experts are more important than other indicators of the

investigated model, which are more important among the infrastructural criteria

of transportation infrastructure than tourism infrastructure. In the next stage, this is a

management index that is another obstacle for the development of

tourism in Khaf County , then, the index of cultural aspects is placed with a

coefficient of 0.86, and the environmental index is placed with a coefficient of 0.57.

Keywords

Tourism; cultural tourism; objective and mental abilities; Khaf County

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