TITLE:
Studying the Effect of Urban Furniture on Satisfaction of Domestic Tourists in Isfahan Bus Terminals
AUTHORS:
Zahra Nadim, Mehri Azani
KEYWORDS:
Urban Furniture, Domestic Tourism, Bus Terminal
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Geology,
Vol.6 No.9,
September
8,
2016
ABSTRACT: Terminals
and stations as one of the most important parts of transportation systems and
also as the arteries of the country’s economy
life undertake significant role in adjustment and regulation of the traffic
pulse of cities and roads. Urban furniture is one of the components considered
in urban designing and as a part of the whole city, it defines the urban
identity and structure. In today’s world,
the importance of designing the urban equipment and furniture is to an extent
that even active architects in the field of industrial designing are invited
for designing and performing the urban furniture and equipment. Urban designing
is a thing beyond making some flower box in squares and determining bus and
taxi stations. Evidently, what gives identity to the city or according to the
saying of “Sansovini”, what has
tranquility for the city’s
residents and creates attraction for foreigner tourists, not only include the
mass buildings and streets traffic, but also include landscape, parks and
furniture of the city. Standard designing of bus terminals like other urban
furniture influences on urban face and it can have significant role in
satisfaction of domestic tourists and increase and propagation of using of
terminals. In this research, it has been attempted that the effect of furniture
in the terminals of Isfahan city on domestic tourists should be
studied that
for this purpose, descriptive-analytic method has been used and data have been
collected through field and library studies and secondary sources by using of
SWOT model.