The Impact of Geopolitical tourism on Convergence of Space political units (Case Study: Iran-Azarbayejan)

Subject Areas : Geography and tourism planning, geography and urban planning, urban planning, architecture, geography and rural planning, political geography

Yadu'llah  Karimipour ¹ (Professor of Geographical Sciences College, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran)
Attaullah  Abdi ² (Assistant Professor of Geographical Sciences College, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran)
Hassan  Afrakhteh ³ (Professor of Geographical Sciences College, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran)
Afshin  Mottaghi ⁴ (Associate Prof. of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran)
Bahramali  Khodaee ⁵ (Ph.D. student of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2018-02-06 Accepted : 2018-02-06 Published : 2016-06-01

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Abstract :

Vicinity in its various dimensions (Geographical, Political, cultural and etc) has Fundamental importance in convergence and common understanding of the political units. This factor led to Convergence and sustainable security in various aspects of economic, socio-cultural and environmental. Therefore, Health infrastructure, cultural heritage, economic interests and ... have important from the perspective of Geopolitical tourism. Accordingly, this study has raised the question that is the geographic proximities such as Geographical neighbors, Identity – historical, Common cultural heritage, Health, environmental problems, economic interests, political and etc, in relation to Iran and Azarbayejan (Geopolitical tourism) of the two countries can be resulted in sustainable convergence and security.Explaining the question has been done by the Analytical-Descriptive method and thecollection of Data and Information have been done bylibrary study. The results show that in the world of highly evolved, that threats Show themselves In newer dimensions day by day, GeopoliticalTourism can determine the convergence And common understanding between political units - Space of geopolitical contexts. In the meantime, whatever this proximities more and deeper,Tourism geopolitical power as a parameter in the field of convergence and convergence of political - space units - would be more practical. Since the two countries of Iran and Azerbaijan have a variety of cultural, social, environmental, economic interests, etc proximities, Geopolitical Tourism can provide the contexts of shared understanding and the convergence between the two countries.

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