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The purpose of this study is to explore and analyze the relationship between effects of tourism on the quality of local community members' life and the extent of their participation in tourism quality improvement programs. Beach of Ramsar in Iran is chosen as a case study. The result of analysis revealed that tourism influences the quality of local community members' life. Also there is a significant relationship between factors affecting quality of community members' life and their level of participation.

This paper investigates the effects of land's proximity to river at a distance of 200 meters on land prices in Tokyo metropolitan Area (TMA) using Geographic Information System (GIS). Line Density Function was employed to estimate the effects of distance and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) was applied for assessing the effects of land's proximity to river. The result of GWR demonstrated that there have been different effects of land's proximity to river in areas near Tokyo Bay and suburbs. In the first area, the proximity to river has positive effects on land prices, whereas in the second area, the proximity to river created negative impacts on land prices. It is also worth mentioning that in the first area, the error of measurement of the employed model for estimating the land price is more than its second counterpart signifying that other important factors in Tokyo Bay play roles in land prices.

Planning for tourism destinations in order to develop collect useful policies with the aim of qualitative improvement of them has a lot of importance.Tourism destinations should have qualities to provide the conditions for attracting the tourists and accommodating them. Different aspects were considered for improving the quality of tourism destinations that one of the most important ones is the quality of tourism environment. This study evaluated the qualitative indicators of the coastal environment of Ramsar city in a field study through questionnaire tool. To this end, 304 questionnaires were distributed among coastal tourists of Ramsar city, and they were analysed after collecting data. The results of the analysis indicated that the qualitative indicators of coastal environment of Ramsar can be recognized in a specified factors. These factors are; 1. Cleanness, the quality of environment sight and social security 2.Tourism facilities 3. Recreational space and activities for families 4.Access and traffic 5.Welfare services and hospitality. There was also significant relationship between quality factors and satisfaction with tourism environment and probability of returning to the tourism destination.