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 , Attaullah Abdi ² , Hassan Afrakhteh ³ , Afshin Mottaghi ⁴ , Bahramali Khodaee ⁵

1 - Professor of Geographical Sciences College, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Geographical Sciences College, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Professor of Geographical Sciences College, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate Prof. of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
5 - Ph.D. student of Political Geography, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

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

Keywords: convergence, Tourism, Geopolitics, geopolitical tourism, Iran and Azerbaijan,

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