Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study moderating role of social capital in development of tourism and sustainable urban development in the city of Zahedan. We prepared a questionnaire with 30 questions; and based on Cochrane’s sample, we distributed 114 questionnaires among managers of Tourist Organization and hotel managers with a random sampling. Based on these results, Zahedan city does not have a good situation in sustainable development. For testing the hypotheses, single-sample T-test, Pearson’s correlation and hierarchal linear regression were applied. Also the result of testing hypotheses indicates that there is a positive relationship between tourism development and sustainable urban development. In addition, the third hypothesis test showed that social capital had a moderating role on the relationship between development of tourism and sustainable urban development so much that based on hierarchical linear regression test, 25% of the variance in sustainable urban development is explained by the moderating role of social capital.
Highlights
The aim of this paper is to study moderating role of social capital in development of tourism and sustainable urban development in the city of Zahedan
The third hypothesis test showed that social capital had a moderating role on the relationship between development of tourism and sustainable urban development so much that based on hierarchical linear regression test, 25% of the variance in sustainable urban development is explained by the moderating role of social capital
The aim of this paper is to study relationship between development of urban tourism and sustainable urban development in Zahedan as one of the developing cities and one of the most important centers of tourism in the southeast of Iran
Summary
Mismanagement in the field of tourism can have very bad consequences on the environment (Malik and Bhat, 2015) These negative effects have been approved on both environment and urban development (Atik, Sayan, & Karagüzel, 2009; Barros, Gonnet, & Pickering, 2013; Cohen, 1978; Croall, 1995; Farooquee, Budal, & Maikhuri, 2008; Malik, Bhat & Kuchay, 2011; Rashid & Romshoo, 2012; Zabortseva & Yevstropieva, 2009). Sustainable urban development is one that can continue in an environment for an unlimited time and does not cause any human or physical damages to the social, cultural, environmental, etc. Sustainable urban development is one that can continue in an environment for an unlimited time and does not cause any human or physical damages to the social, cultural, environmental, etc. issues and is so much active that it does not bring damage to development of other social activities and processes (Butler, 2000: p. 29)
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