Defining of the role of the Great Bazar of Tehran in urban tourism development

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

Sima Boozari ¹ , Ebrahim Khalifeh ² , Mojtaba Babakinejad ³

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Received: 2014-11-25 Accepted : 2014-11-25 Published : 2013-06-22

Keywords: Tourist, Urban tourism, Tourism Sustainable Developmen, The Great Bazar of&#x0D, &#x0D, Tehran,

Abstract :

Urban management of Tehran City have been faced to different challenges, special in theeconomic structure, while this mega city has both specific location (administrative – politicalcentrality )to attract the capital in the country and it's historical background indicate that' scapability to attract the inner and outer tourists ,so The Great Bazar of Tehran, because of hislocation in urban old texture and it's various functions (commercial, religious, recreational andso on ) is considerable. This article attempts to know comprehensively of various capabilitiesof The Great Bazar of Tehran with an descriptive- exploratory approach in urban tourismdevelopment. In this article ,according to the research type (correlation), different limitationsin data collection , samples number is 150, that is based on the accidental sampling.According to the hypothesis and research problem and to measure the correlation between thevariables (the infrastructures of The Great Bazar and urban tourism development ), indicatorsinclude( communicative, informal, servicing ,cultural - religious , historical , commercial andrecreational) have been studied. Based on the Conclusions of the research ,about (Studyingand comparison of changes trends of The Great Bazar of Tehran) show that considerablefunctional weakness is on the management and planning of tourism developmentplanning(The Great Bazar of Tehran);Thus The Great Bazar of Tehran, according to it'sspatial potentials , with a strategic planning , participatory management and quantitative andqualitative provision of the communicative, servicing and informal infrastructures ,byadapting to universal standards and criteria, can has so important role to attract inner andouter tourists and positive functional changes in Tehran city and the other levels.