Necessity to strengthen Nahavand s urban diplomacy in order to tourism development

mostafa khazaee¹ javad abdi torbaghan²

1) PhD in geography and urban planning, lecturer at shahid Beheshti University
2) msc in geography and urban planning, shahid Beheshti University

Publication : International Congress of Science and Engineering - TOKYO UNIVERSITY - JAPAN(tuicet.com)
Abstract :
Nowadays, tourism is considered as one of the most profitable economic activities and different countries of the world are competing with each other to attract more and more tourists. Alongside the many influential parameters that can be called tourism development, urban diplomacy has played an active role in the development of the urban tourism market in different countries of the world for the past several decades. Tourism industry in all aspects related to government policies and political developmentalso creating and promoting peace and economic development. In Iran, tourism, despite its many potentialities, has not been successful in exploiting this advantage for various reasons, and this issuewould be interest to our country s diplomacy. Tourism and urban diplomacy in Nahavand city is also extremely weak and should be take a place serious action. Research Method of The paper is a descriptive-analytical. The purpose of the article is to provide practical strategies for Nahavand municipality and other responsible institutes to tourism development.
Keywords : Nahavand city Urban diplomacy Tourism development development