Music tourism; A way to develop the creative city of music

Hamideh Sayyahpour¹

1) PhD Student of Educational Adminstration, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.

IOI Code : XGFG-KKCAK
Publication : 7th International Congress of Developing Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Tourism of Iran(7icsda.ir)
Abstract :
    In recent years, many countries pay special attention to tourism, and every year this multifaceted industry is associated with a lot of growth and development, so that it can be considered the third most profitable industry in the world. There are different types of tourism. Music tourism is one of the broad branches of cultural tourism and today a significant part of international tourists are inclined towards this type of tourism. On the other hand, in the process of globalization, different cities are competing with each other to occupy a more suitable place in the hierarchy of global cities, and in the last two decades, this competition has been mostly in the fields of knowledge-based development, attraction of cultural industries and global events. . In line with the sustainable development of cities, the creative city approach has been proposed. Creative cities are centers that have unique features. Urban management in this type of city provides public services and social and economic bases in a new, efficient, productive and beautiful way. According to UNESCO, seven areas constitute the activity priorities of creative cities, which are: 1. Literature, 2. Cinema, 3. Music, 4. Folk art and skills, 5. Design, 6. Media arts and 7. . Nutrition. UNESCO considers special components to connect each city to the network of creative music cities and develop it. Considering that Iran s music, with all its richness and great history, as an unlimited capital, has an undeniable ability; It is necessary to take advantage of it by knowing its aspects and capacities in line with the prosperity of the tourism industry, which is one of the important components of the creation and development of the creative city of music; Therefore, music tourism is an important issue that in this article, with the aim of explaining the role and importance of music tourism in the development of the creative city of music, the research process has been carried out in a descriptive-analytical and library form.

Keywords : tourism music tourism creative city creative city of music