The Study of Climatourism Management and the Determination of Climatourism Calendar in Ardabil Province of Iran with emphasis on GIS

Purpose The Climate is considered as one of the most important factors oftourism industry. Numerical indicators have been widely used in climaticstudies that are related to tourism climatology or climate tourism. Amongsynthetic indicators of climate tourism, temperature-physiology depends onthe balance of human body energy. In the current research, Ardabil provincehas been studied from Climatourism point of view.Methodology: We used a 26-year climatic data (1987-2013), and specifiedclimatic factors including minimum temperature, the percentage of relativehumidity, wind speed, cloudiness and pressure in Ardabil, Meshkin Shahr,Parsabad and Khalkhal Stations. Human individual indicators (age, weight, andheight) and activity type factors were used to calculate the temperaturephysiology(PET and PMV).Findings: Ray Man model wasapplied in this regard and results show that inlocal extent there is not much difference between various stations, and withrespect to the space there are different climatic stresses. In the next level theobtained results are imported to Arc GIS software and are used aboutClimatourism and its analysis. The most comfortable daily periods refer toMeshkin Shahr station (with 60 comfortable climatic days) and the leastcomfortable daily period belongs to Ardabil station (with 37 comfortable days).Originality/Value: In this study we attempted to find the most appropriatetourism times and also to determine the local and temporal differences ofcomfortable region in Ardabil province of Iran in different seasons.

The Study of Climatourism Management and the Determination of Climatourism Calendar in Ardabil Province of Iran with emphasis on GIS Keywords:

Temperaturephysiology index , PMV and PET indicators , Thermal comfortable , Tourism climatology (climatetourism) , Ardabil province , Iran