Sustainable ecotourism development in protected areas with an emphasis on the concept of environmental carrying capacity

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مژگان بزم آرا بلشتی ¹ , Mortezam tavakoly ² , satar soltanian ³ , Kaveh Jafarzadeh ⁴

1 - دانشجو
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Tarbiat Modares University
3 - the coach
4 - the other

Received: 2017-08-09 Accepted : 2017-12-20 Published : 2018-02-20

Keywords: "environmental carrying capacity", " sustainable development", "ecotourism", " Sports ecotourism", management and planning", "Khaeez protected area",

Abstract :

In this research, the breadth of capacity, ecotourism and Sports ecotourism of the protected area of Khayyz have been studied to achieve the development of sustainable ecotourism. In the same way, after providing information and analyzing them on the GIS and using the linear combination method The area of the zones of each ecotourism activity was determined and Then, using the obtained information and theoretical foundations related to the capacity of the board, the threshold of ecotourism tolerance and sports ecotourism activities were calculated at three levels: physical, real and effective. According to the results, 60.5% of the total area was considered suitable for ecotourism, which has a very good area with the highest area (24.5%). Also, a very good area with 2420145 people with the highest physical range and 56278 the person has the most realistic wins. largest area of exercise ecotourism activity is located in the middle zone with an area of 3358/24 acres and it is indicative of the fact that the Southern Hemisphere is of medium power in terms of sport tourism. Out of the sports ecotourism activities, climbing activities have the highest capacity in a good area. This increase is due to the favorable environmental and ecological conditions and the greater area of these areas. Finally, studying the existing tourism situation and assessing the region indicates that the lack of attention to the threshold of environmental sustainability in the protected area of southern Khayzis can endanger the stability of the area in the short term.