The role of residential infrastructures in tourism activities of Rasht

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

mohamad soleimani moghadam ¹ , ghasem eslami ²

1 - استادیار دانشگاه تربیت معلم سبزوار،گروه جغرافیا، سبزوار، ایران
2 - دانش آموخته کارشناسی ارشد جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی توریسم، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد تهران مرکز، تهران، ایران

Received: 2011-06-20 Accepted : 2012-03-15 Published : 2012-02-20

Keywords: Rasht City, Residential infrastructures, Tourism activities, Attracting tourists,

Abstract :

Considering that residential infrastructures are the most important components of tourism environmental system, quality and quantity of these infrastructures to increase tourism activities especially to attract tourists would be effective.  Despite high capabilities to attract tourists, Iran has not provided a proper condition to exploit and develop residential infrastructures as developed countries. In this regard lots of structural problems such as quantity and quantity, and skill and spatiality degree of staffs in residential centers related to tourism attraction, are one of the basic problems and challenges of Rasht city so that they have affected tourism activities. Method of the research is descriptive and analytical. To conduct the investigation, in addition of collecting library statistics and information,  completing questionnaire of tourists who entered to Rasht residential centers and completing interview questionnaire of managers, data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. Findings showed that residential infrastructures are qualitatively and quantitatively effective in tourists' attraction, so that reduction in number of residential centers from 20 units in 2001 to 18 units in 2010, decreased numbers of tourists entered in Rasht residential centers.Findings also represent law degree of literacy and skill of employed human resource in residential centers of Rasht so that 62 percent of them do not have certificate of diploma and 75.5 percent of them were not educated. Findings also revealed that a set of endogenous factors (residential infrastructures, level of literacy and skill of employed human resource) and exogenous factors (strategic policies of the country in tourism sector) in environmental system of tourism have been effective in tourism activities of Rasht city during recent decades.