The role and importance of ancient sites from the perspective of entrepreneurship and landscape tourism

Subject Areas : Archaeology

Amir Hashempour Mafi ¹ (assistant professor, Department of Archaeology, Chalous branch, Islamic Azad University, Chalous, Iran)

Received: 2023-05-29 Accepted : 2023-08-11 Published : 2023-08-16

Keywords: entrepreneurship, human, Place, Ancient sites, landscape tourism,

Abstract :

Ancient sites are the result of human activity or interactions of nature in a specific place, which can be said to include small and large works, the remains of which are left over time for us archaeologists to interpret and explain them. The tourism industry is an important factor in the direction of growth, which is constantly facing the demand of the people of the society, and it is also considered as a necessary and efficient bed for entrepreneurship. The expansion of the tourism industry, especially the landscape tourism, in Iran, in addition to economic and cultural development, plays a significant role in creating more empathy between the ethnic groups and cultures of Iran and increasing the convergence between different strata of the country. The topic of landscape is included in the topic of human places. In recent years, the responsible bodies pay special attention to the development of entrepreneurship and consider its expansion as a solution for economic prosperity, in the last half century, due to reasons including jobs and many problems, many people from villages and regions with ability have Tourism migrated Areas with tourism capabilities have turned into cities that the development of the tourism industry by creating employment and helping to eliminate unemployment and developing wealth can help in controlling this phenomenon. In addition, this topic has caused the expansion of culture and familiarity with landscape tourism and ancient sites and sites and cultural historical monuments that are of great importance and has provided a suitable cultural platform for their protection and preservation. With this aim, the basic and important question of the research can be to what extent ancient sites can be effective in the field of entrepreneurship and landscape tourism? During this research, in addition to stating the known factors in the field of landscape tourism entrepreneurship, the emergence of culture, civilization and landscape manifestations, which will be discussed in addition to the transmission of findings that end up improving the tourists' vision.