Author(s)

Masoumeh Hafiz Rezazadeh, Fatemeh Hashem Zehi, Raziye Eslami Rad

Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan Branch, Zahedan, Iran.

The aim of this paper is to study moderating role of social capital in development of tourism and sustainable urban development in the city of Zahedan. We prepared a questionnaire with 30 questions; and based on Cochrane’s sample, we distributed 114 questionnaires among managers of Tourist Organization and hotel managers with a random sampling. Based on these results, Zahedan city does not have a good situation in sustainable development. For testing the hypotheses, single-sample T-test, Pearson’s correlation and hierarchal linear regression were applied. Also the result of testing hypotheses indicates that there is a positive relationship between tourism development and sustainable urban development. In addition, the third hypothesis test showed that social capital had a moderating role on the relationship between development of tourism and sustainable urban development so much that based on hierarchical linear regression test, 25% of the variance in sustainable urban development is explained by the moderating role of social capital.

Moderating Role, Social Capital, Development of Urban Tourism, Sustainable Urban Development

Rezazadeh, M. , Zehi, F. and Rad, R. (2016) The Study of Moderating Role of Social Capital in the Relationship between Development of Urban Tourism and Sustainable Urban Development (Case Study: Zahedan). Current Urban Studies, 4, 461-475. doi: 10.4236/cus.2016.44030.