Impact of Historical-Cultural Tourism on Sustaining Community Tourism: The Case of Kerman, Iran

Abstract

Sustainable development has been recently one of the essential subjects in tourism debates. In order to have sustainable tourism in a destination, both visitors and local community must understand and follow the rules of sustainability while different types of tourism in the destination should be considered as well. This study investigates on historical-cultural tourism in Kerman city in Iran to find out how this type of tourism has affected the city's sustainability with regard to sustainability indicators. A model has been used based on the work of Choi and Sirakaya (2006) who investigated on sustainability indictors for community tourism. Economical, social, cultural and environmental dimensions have been used as the criteria for measuring sustainability. Delphi technique was used as the method of this study for structuring a group communication process. After four rounds of discussion with the study panel, the most affected indictors of each dimension were addressed by them. Results showed that historical-cultural tourism in Kerman have influenced employment, income, nature of demand, host and tourist attitude toward tourism development, community health, cultural site management and education, loss of renewable and non-renewable resources, and health of human population.

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