Global tourism and iran’s attractions (a case study of great wall of gorgan)

Tourism and entertainment are activities which are not based on future technology and have a key role in economical, cultural and social structure. Tourism industry is the base of permanent development. Development of tourism industry is vital for developing countries because they face with different problems such as unemployment or limitation of foreign exchange reserves and monoculture. Iran is a country that is located in Middle East and has a natural competitive advantage over other countries. It contains lots of natural, historical and cultural attractions for tourists. So, based on capacity and available facilities, we can shift it to one of the tourist attraction countries of the world by proper management. Based on world ranking, Iran is one the ten countries in the world that has most amazing tourist attractions. However, Iran has many infrastructural problems about development of tourist industry. Iran, tries to consider effective elements of its tourism attraction development. Tourism as a need and its change into the largest service industry has provided the opportunity to benefit every location .Therefore, in this research, we consider Gorgan’s large wall as a sample of Iran’s tourist attraction places. It is the longest historical place in Iran and the third historical wall in the world after Great Wall of China and Samiz wall of Germany. We also consider why it is not so important among Iran’s historical places. This historic wall based on proved documents dates back to late Sasanian periodbetween 429 AD till 615 AD Generally, the aim of this research is to identify effective elements on the development and growth of permanent development of tourism industry in Iran. However, such a perspective creates a concern about environmental degradation. In fact, the relationship between environment and tourism is so close; because environment by itself is an important attraction for tourists. So, we can provide an appropriate model based on descriptive and survey methods by use of scientific views and ideas to use these chances and eliminate problems.

Keywords:

tourist attraction , iran’s tourist attraction , the great wall of gorgan