Background and Objective: Social carrying capacity of tourists refers to the degree of readiness admission congestion on their behalf and if the crowd is too much to bear it would degrade the quality of the experience. According to the present study has been conducted t More
Background and Objective: Social carrying capacity of tourists refers to the degree of readiness admission congestion on their behalf and if the crowd is too much to bear it would degrade the quality of the experience. According to the present study has been conducted to determination of social carrying capacity of coastal of tourists.
Method: The method of data analysis in this research is descriptive and analytical. Data collected by the library and field observations and questionnaires. To determination of Social carrying capacity of coastal tourists is used of image capture technology (ICT) and social norms curves and descriptive statistics.
Findings: According to the results, social carrying capacity of coastal tourists in the study area is maximum of 2019 persons and at least 425 persons at a time. Also in the present situation at an average number of people on the beach are 1,246 persons.
Discussion and Conclusion:With regard to the area of the study area, it was estimated that the maximum acceptable congestion in the study area is 2019 people; somehow that does not degrade the quality of the tourist experience. It also was to determine the minimum acceptable congestion 425 persons. In this regard, it was found that in the present circumstances there were 1,246 persons at a time in coastal areas, showing the number of tourists in beach of Bandar Gaz not more than the threshold of its social carrying capacity.
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Background and Objective: Carrying capacity is one of the issues which are considered the goals of sustainable tourism. Accordingly, present study was conducted to determine the physical-ecological carrying capacity of beach of Bandar Gaz and effectiveness of the touris More
Background and Objective: Carrying capacity is one of the issues which are considered the goals of sustainable tourism. Accordingly, present study was conducted to determine the physical-ecological carrying capacity of beach of Bandar Gaz and effectiveness of the tourists' satisfaction.
Method: The method of data analysis in this research is descriptive and analytical. Data collected by the library and field observations and questionnaires. To determination of physical-ecological carrying capacity have been used from the instructions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and also to understand the satisfaction level of tourists due to expectations from service performance to have been used from analysis Importance-Performance.
Results: Based on the results, it is estimated to physical carrying capacity 7089 people, real carrying capacity 3863 people and the effective carrying capacity 1880 people per day. The results of analysis Importance-Performance show that among 24 indicators studied, there are 8 indicators in the second quarter, 14 in the first quarter and 2 indicators in the third quarter.
Conclusion: According to the analysis Importance-Performance indicators more than 50 percent in the first quarter, indicating that most indicators of the respondents' views are very important but the performance of destination management has been weak in this regard that whereby effective carrying capacity than real carrying capacity has fallen 48.66 percent.
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