An Exploration on the Effective Factors of Tourism Industry on Protection of the Environment in the Historical City Ghoumas

Hooman Mesgarian, Leili Alaei

Department of Geography, Islamic Azad University, Semnan Branch, Member of Young Researchers Elite Club, Semnan, Iran.
Department of Geography, Islamic Azad University, Semnan Branch, Semnan, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/oje.2014.49048                

Abstract

According to the world tourism organization (WHO) in 2005, the number of tourists has increased up to 36 times. In a way that it has maximized from 25 million in 1950 to 1018 million in 2010. The sustainable tourism, thus, because of making a balance between different environmental, economic, cultural and social dimensions of the tourism development, plays a considerable role in protection of species diversity, and benefits the tourism activists in order to reduce its destructive impact on the environment and the local cultures and being kept for the future generations. Accordingly, the present research first examines the relationship between tourism, sustainable development and the ecology, for measurement of different aspects of the industry effect on the environment. Secondly, the present study uses from some parameters like the average monthly minimum and maximum temperatures, the average relative humidity, the average maximum and minimum temperatures in day and at night in the Semnan station as well as using the common diagram in the experimental methods like Olegi to assess day and night Climatourism in the region. Finally, on the basis of the performed analysis, the strengths and weak points of tourist attractions for the protection of the environment are considered.

Keywords

Climatourism, Semnan, Sustainable Development, The Environment, Tourism

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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