The integrated management model of coastal tourism (case study: the beaches of Bandar Abbas)
Subject Areas :Maryam Darvishi 1 , Rahim Sarvar 2 * , Abas Malek Hoseini 3 , Heidare Lotfi 4
1 - Ph.D. student of Geography Department, Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm, Iran
2 - Professor of Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor of Department of Geography, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Political Geography, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran
Keywords: integrated management model, beach tourism, beaches of Bandar Abbas city,
Abstract :
The tourism industry is growing rapidly in the world today within the framework of certain spatial patterns. One of them is tourism on the sea coast. Sea and coast have a great opportunity for tourism development and coastal tourism is considered as one of the most important models of economic development and employment creation. In this type of tourism, tourists travel to coastal areas to see beaches and use coastal facilities. Therefore, the main goal of the current research is to provide an integrated management model of coastal tourism, the case study of the beaches of Bandar Abbas city. The mixed research method is qualitative-quantitative. The statistical population of the current research in two quantitative and qualitative parts includes experts in the field of tourism and all tourists who traveled to Bandar Abbas city between April 1400 and Shahrivar 1400 and were considered tourism, in this research using random sampling and volume calculation a sample of 325 people were selected as subjects. In the following, using the factor analysis model, in which the factors were: structural (factorial factor 0.43), behavioral (factorial factor 0.62), environmental (factorial factor 0.38), the indicators of the integrated coastal tourism management model, the studied beaches the city of Bandar Abbas was determined. Among the 54 items, considering that all the factor loadings were above 0.6, therefore none of the factors were eliminated, all three components, under the title of factors of the integrated coastal tourism management model,.
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