The development of nature-based tourism is one the most critical sectors tourism, which influenced by various economic, socio-cultural, and environmental factors. COVID-19 pandemic has all including tourism. purpose this article to identify key drivers affecting analyze future scenarios in Iran based on uncertainties caused pandemic. Micmac ScenarioWizard software programs were used research fi...

We present a new method for ecologically sustainable land use planning within multiple land use schemes. Our aims were (1) to develop a method that can be used to locate important areas based on their ecological values; (2) to evaluate the quality, quantity, availability, and usability of existing ecological data sets; and (3) to demonstrate the use of the method in Eastern Finland, where there...

Traditional tour route planning mostly depends on the planner’s experience. However, whether tour route planning is appropriate or not has a considerable impact on the time and cost of the tour. Good planning can save unnecessary waiting time, avoid wasted operating costs, and contribute to the enhancement of the quality of tourism. Therefore, this study applied the ant colony optimization algo...

b. ramezani gourab1 and p.foroughe2 1-dept. of physical geography, islamic azad university, rasht branch, iran. 2- dept. of geography and tourism planning, usm, malaysia. * corresponding author?s e-mail: [email protected]

the aim of the current study was to investigate the perceived psychic distance of potentialtourists in relation to iran as a tourism destination. the concept of psychic distance refersto perceived similarities/ differences between specific destination and tourist's homecountry. the members of couch-surfing virtual community participated in this study. thestatistical data were collected by conve...

Search engines have become one of the primary tools for travel planning and, as such, have become an important part of the Internet marketing strategy of destination organizations. Recently, it has been demonstrated that because of the dynamic relationships among the search engine providers, the tourism industry and travellers, it is essential that destination marketing organizations have a sub...

Introduction: Health tourism industry is growing in border provinces of the country, especially in the areas where tourists feel more comfortable as a result of distance from stressful urban life. This research was done to promote Health Tourism Industry in Ardabil. Methods: This is an analytic study. The data were gathered by means of library technique f...

Th e conceptual framework of ecostrategies (views and use of landscape) presented here have been used to analyse various cases of nature-based tourism and related activities such as outdoor recreation, outdoor education, nature reserves and conservation. Th e role of the ecostrategies is to illustrate the intersections, confl icts and alliances between diff erent types of nature based tourism a...