tourism dual space management with emphasis on tehran historic tourism e city

with the advent of cyberspace and development of data and information, virtual cities were presented as new forms of city management in different layers and territories. historic and tourism virtual city are among eight types of virtual cities. in this article some guidelines were presented in order to design and manage them based on tehran tourists' need assessment. theoretical framework of this article is based on dual globalization paradigm and use of good urban governance theory. for using this theory at urban tourism area, its eight indexes were redefined and finally a three - levels table of hypothetical needs including intercity tourist, intercity tourist and international tourist, constructed. these hypothetical needs were tested by using survey method (online questionnaire). the results of this research, showed the priority needs of tehran tourists based on which final guidelines for designing and management of tehran historic tourism virtual city were presented.