Analyzing the role of social, cultural, economic, environmental, and institutional structures in urban tourism development from viewpoint of the host community (case study: Galoogah city)

Fahimeh khajehnabei¹ Mohamad reza zandmoghadam²

1) ، PhD Student in Geography Municipal Planning, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran
2) ، Departman of Geography college of human science ,semnan Branch. Islamic Azad university, semnan, Iran

IOI Code : XACK-BHBZE
Publication : Second International Conference on Applied Sciences and Engineering Sciences, Shanghai, China(iasesconf.com)
Abstract :
    Abstract Essentially, economic development in every country requires investment on different economic activities and sectors. Without such investment on infrastructural plans, development of employment, production and economic well-being may not be expected. Tourism is one of the most dynamic economic activities of the present era playing a significant role in local sustainable development. Also, it possesses several material and spiritual aspects each of which attract the other one. Today, as the most developed and expanded service industry of the world, tourism occupied a specific position in economic, cultural, social and political areas. The present paper aims at analyzing social, cultural, economic, environmental and institutional constructs and their contribution to development of urban tourism froe view point of the host community (case study: Galoogah city). Required data for this descriptive – analytical research was collected through library and field studies (questionnaire). Research population was composed of all households of Galoogah city (11536 households) from which 371 were selected as research sample through Cochran’s method and using random stratified sampling. Finally, collected data was analyzed by SPSS software and single-sample T test. Findings demonstrated that social, cultural, economic, environmental and institutional constructs play a significant role in development of urban tourism.

Keywords : social cultural economic environmental institutional constructs urban tourism development galoogah city