Assessing the Impacts of human needs on Enhancing of urban Tourism development (Case study; Shahrekord, Iran)

Abstract

Human beings have a special importance as a main element in developing tourism, and meeting their needs as an inseparable part of tourism is one of the most fundamental factors in developing tourism industry. Human needs are defined by ten elements of: size, degree of safety, contrast, humanistic scale, distance, texture, color, odor, sound, and the variety in physical environment. So far, numerous studies have been carried out on the sense of belonging to place, but a few number of them has ever studied the effect of the ten above-mentioned elements of belonging to place on the tourism development as a progressive industry. Therefore, it was hypothesized that there is a positive relationship between these ten elements of belonging to place and the Development of Tourism Industry. This effect was studied in a descriptive-analytic survey. The main research method is to study the effect of this sense as a basic need on the Development of Tourism in the Shahrekord as tourist site in Iran,, the satisfaction of tourists of ten factors proposed by Fritz Steele as physical, social and environmental factors creating a sense of belonging to place were evaluated. The results revealed that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between any of these elements and tourist attraction in a way that elements like environmental contrast, sound, odor, materials, visual variety, humanistic scale, distance to tourist attraction, size, color, and security of the place, cause an increase in satisfaction of place and Development of Tourism Industry in the cities, respectively