Assessing the Capacity of the Social Board Tourism in Kandovan Vilage, East Azarbayjan Province

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Abolfazl  Ghanbari ¹ (دانشیار گروه پژوهشی جغرافیا، دانشگاه تبریز، تبریز، ایران)

Received: 2017-01-03 Accepted : 2019-02-10 Published : 2020-06-21

Keywords: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), Social Carrying Capacity of Tourism, Kandowan,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to evaluate and assess the social carrying capacity of tourism in the region of Kandovan. For this purpose, in 1394, the documentary approach, survey and questionnaire is used. For data analysis software from SPSS and AMOS Structural Equation Model of the software environment used. The results show that the effectiveness of the host society's attitude to tourism social carrying capacity of the host society in the region of Kandovan, /254, which has less impact on the variables on each other. The impact of tourist arrivals and cultural changes in lifestyle, particularly social behavior in society 1/022 host and the host communities’ satisfactory effect of determining the carrying capacity of social infrastructure on tourism, is 1/480. The impact of satisfaction tourists determining the carrying capacity of the social infrastructure of tourism, /517 and the effects of individual variables and changes in underlying values of the host society of the host society is 1/465. Thus, the effect of individual variables and the underlying host society's changing values of society /727 guests and finally the effect of population density on tourism social carrying capacity of the host society /460 and the effect of population density on tourism social carrying capacity in terms of society's guests /761.

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