Safety and environmental risk assessment of the mountain sport and resorts of Tehran with an emphasis on the sustainable tourism carrying capacity and the provision of management approaches

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

Baranoosh Nikbin ¹ , Bahram Ghadimi ²

1 - Doctor of Behavioral Management. Kharazmi University. Advisor to the Minister and Director General of the Ministry of Sports and Youth
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Sports Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch

Received: 2020-12-05 Accepted : 2020-12-05 Published : 2020-12-01

Keywords: Sustainable Tourism, environmental risk, mountain sport,

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