Evaluation of the Phantasm and Branding of Tourism Destinations (case study: South Khorasan Province, Iran)

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

Mohammad Eskandari Sani ¹ , Ebrahim Rezaei ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of literature and Humanities,University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran
2 - Ph.D. student in Geography & Urban Planning,Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-04-11 Accepted : 2020-04-11 Published : 2020-03-01

Keywords: tourist destinations, Tourist Branding, South Khorasan Province,

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