Identifying impact of urban tourism on historical context regeneration from viewpoint of local residents’ by using analysis method (Case Study: Shiraz City)

Authors

• Ali Karimzadeh ¹
• Seyed Kamal Aldin Shahriari ²
• Mahyar Ardeshiri ³

¹ Department of Urban Development, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Department of Urban Development, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Department of Urban Development, Beyza Branch, Islamic Azad University, Beyza, Iran

Abstract

Urban regeneration that focusing on tourism was considered as a recent approach in the past two decades, in order to protect and preserve valuable historical contexts. This study has been developed by descriptive - analytical method in order to recognize the impact of urban tourism on regenerating the historical context at local residents' point of view and the collecting data tool was through library studies and questionnaire. The sample size was 360 (n=360) and data are analyzed by using LISRELL software. In this study, four regenerated areas of Shiraz were studied and Zandiye area was chosen by the analytic hierarchy process AHP. The results of questioning the local residents imply the prioritization of the effective dimensions on urban regeneration tourism-led respectively social dimensions with correlation coefficient of 0.97, economic dimensions with correlation coefficient of 0.90, cultural dimensions with correlation coefficient of 0.90 and physical dimensions with correlation coefficient of 0.83.

Keywords

• Urban Tourism
• Urban regeneration
• Tourism-led urban regeneration

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