Studying Tourism Indicators In Iran (Case Study: Khoramabad City)

Abstract

Now tourism industry is one of the greatest World Industries from point of view development and with attention to be use financial sources and involved persons with that. This industry, has third rank in financial and commercial classifications and including more than 7 percent of whole world exports, also it influence gross national product in all countries; so that increase rate of gross national product 2billion $ in all world nations. Tourism industry important to stress tow important ways: first, the dynamic familiarity with other cultures, nations, races, tribes, dialects and …; second, it provides sources of income and foreign exchanges from an economic point of view. The different world countries fallowed attraction of tourists because of that they have various facilities and various attractions.Iran is ranked as one of the 10 top attractive countries in the world but Iran was place 114th ranking of the countries in terms of attracting tourists (World Economic Forum, 2011), tourism receipts is ranked as 77th, and the number of international tourists arrivals ranked as place 70 th (UNWTO, 2009).So, the aim of this research is, studying main indicators in tourism location in order to improving their qualify. This research is qualitative. Also was used the Descriptive/ Explanatory through contain analysis. The research method are phenomenological, conceptual and constructive theory in field of tourism industry in context of Iran, Which eventually is bound to lead to the development of tourism industry in Iran. The strategy of this research is qualitative method by using case study in the area of tourism industry in fabric of Iran. So, was introduced touristic-historical building. Then according to visitor comments was ranked. At finally was used T-Test method in order to analyzing hypothesis. KEY WORD: Tourism indicators, indicators, Iran, Khoramabad