Evaluation of Tourism Websites from Urban Development Perspective (Case Study: Metropolitan Tehran)

Subject Areas : Urban Design

Mohammad Taghi Rahnemai ¹ , Mohammad Reza Rezvani ² , Ali Rahimpour ³ , Farhad Jafari ⁴

1 - Professor, Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran
2 - Professor, Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran
3 - Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism organization
4 - Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Human Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran

Received: 2015-06-22 Accepted : 2015-09-02 Published : 2015-12-01

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