The Impacts of Mud Volcano Tourism on Developing Rural Areas

Gholam Reza Miri, Masoumeh Hafez Reza Zaad and Hamidreza Shahraki

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2014, vol. 4, issue 2, 351-366

Abstract: In fact, nowadays tourism is considered as one of the important tools for defining national and cultural identity, education, income and economical growth. Among the tourism fields the growth of ecotourism is very high that according to the forecasting from international tourism organization the 21th century will be the century of ecotourism. The objective of this research is reviewing the influences of mud volcano tourism on developing the rural areas. The method of conducting this research is descriptive by applying SWOT model. It means that mud volcano in Pirgol with having capabilities in tourism industry can be an example of tourism spots but it has some challenges and issues such as lack of investment and lack of infrastructures as the main barriers for its tourism.

Date: 2014
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/The_Impacts_of_Mud ... ping_Rural_Areas.pdf (application/pdf)
http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/The_Impacts_of_Mud ... ping_Rural_Areas.pdf (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hur:ijarbs:v:4:y:2014:i:2:p:351-366

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences from Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Hassan Danial Aslam ().