Authors : Ali Asghar Abdolahi, Fateme Mahmoudinia and Asma Mahmudinia
Abstract: Tourism is the engine of economical development and is one of factors that reduce poverty in urban and rural regions and it can affect positively or negatively destinations of tourists. The present research aims to study tourism status in host community of Mahan. Also, the aim is to study tourism status in Mahan and its role on development of tourism in Mahan, Kerman. The research methodology is surveying, descriptive-analytic. The opinions of host community about arrival of tourists to Mahan were studied using sequential simultaneous regression analysis, Baron and Kenny steps and MINITAB Software. Results indicate that in the region under study, mean support of residents from tourism development (M = 4.20) in a 5 degree interval shows that residents evaluated support of tourism development in a high level. Regression coefficient for dimensions of socio-economical, cultural and environmental effects indicate that coefficient of economic effects is higher than that in environmental and socio-cultural effects. Support of residents from tourism development associates mostly with economic effects (β = 0.189) rather than socio-cultural and environmental effects. On this basis, economic effects with regression coefficient of β = 0.189 and environmental effects with regression coefficient of β = 0.131 predict significantly support of residents from tourism development but socio-cultural effects cannot predict support of residents from tourism development.
Ali Asghar Abdolahi, Fateme Mahmoudinia and Asma Mahmudinia, 2016. Urban Tourism and its Role in Tourism Development of the Host Community with an Emphasis on Sustainable Development (Case Study: Mahan). International Business Management, 10: 4231-4236.