Investigating the Role of Tourism Infrastructure in the Development of Cultural-Heritage Tourism (Case Study: Takht-e-Soleiman World Heritage Complex)

Abbaszadeh, Mozaffar; Parvin, Raheleh

Investigating the Role of Tourism Infrastructure in the Development of Cultural-Heritage Tourism (Case Study: Takht-e-Soleiman World Heritage Complex)

Document Type : Origional Article

Authors

Mozaffar Abbaszadeh ¹

Raheleh Parvin ²

¹ Associate professor, Faculty of Architecture, Urban planning and Art, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.

² Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Architecture, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

Background and Aim: Cultural-heritage tourism is important in representing the identity of its society as a distinctive aspect of the culture of any society. Visitors' dissatisfaction with the infrastructure disrupts the nature of the heritage. Therefore, paying attention to the category of tourism infrastructure to promote awareness, provides one of the effective grounds for the development of cultural-heritage tourism. The Takht-e-Soleiman World Heritage Complex welcomes domestic and foreign tourists every year due to its luxurious capital located in the city of Takab in West Azerbaijan province, but it is centralized in terms of the quality of tourism infrastructure.
Methods: The present study seeks to answer the question "What are the indicators of the quality of infrastructure in the field of heritage cultural tourism?" It deals with the role of infrastructure. Also, the answer to the question "From the tourists' point of view, what is the quality status of each of the cultural-heritage tourism infrastructures in the Takht-e-Soleiman World Heritage Area?" was investigated in explaining the achievement of the principles of tourism development in this valuable complex. The research method was analyzed as a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) applied type using structured questions in a five-point Likert format in SPSS software and 57 internal and external variables of 7 levels were identified to investigate the problems in the quality of infrastructure.
Findings and Conclusion: The results showed that most of the points of collision and interference happened in the marginal parking area of commercial-service uses and with the area of influence from the whole city that has not even provided the minimum parking area specified in the approved detailed plan of this city. Therefore, for any request for creation, development, or change of land use, its traffic impacts must be checked in addition to complying with the established principles and criteria.

Keywords

Infrastructure

Tourism

Development

Cultural Heritage

Takht-e-Soleiman

Subjects

Regional & Urban Spatial Organization

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