TITLE:
An Exploration on the Effective Factors of Tourism Industry on Protection of the Environment in the Historical City Ghoumas
AUTHORS:
Hooman Mesgarian, Leili Alaei
KEYWORDS:
Climatourism, Semnan, Sustainable Development, The Environment, Tourism
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Ecology,
Vol.4 No.9,
June
26,
2014
ABSTRACT: According to the world tourism organization
(WHO) in 2005, the number of tourists has increased up to 36 times. In a way
that it has maximized from 25 million in 1950 to 1018 million in 2010. The
sustainable tourism, thus, because of making a balance between different
environmental, economic, cultural and social dimensions of the tourism
development, plays a considerable role in protection of species diversity, and
benefits the tourism activists in order to reduce its destructive impact on the
environment and the local cultures and being kept for the future generations. Accordingly,
the present research first examines the relationship between tourism,
sustainable development and the ecology, for measurement of different aspects
of the industry effect on the environment. Secondly, the present study uses
from some parameters like the average monthly minimum and maximum temperatures,
the average relative humidity, the average maximum and minimum temperatures in
day and at night in the Semnan station as well as using the common diagram in
the experimental methods like Olegi to assess day and night Climatourism in the
region. Finally, on the basis of the performed analysis, the strengths and weak
points of tourist attractions for the protection of the environment are
considered.