NDLI: Integrated Coastal Tourism Zone Management (ICTZM) as a basis for sustainable development of the south coastline of the Caspian Sea.

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Integrated Coastal Tourism Zone Management (ICTZM) as a basis for sustainable development of the south coastline of the Caspian Sea.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Monavari, Masoud Abed, Mahsa Hakimi Karbassi, Abdolreza Farshchi, Parvin Abedi, Zahra
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The south coastline of the Caspian Sea as a context of massive social and economic activities is considered among the most productive and dynamic ecological resources undergoing rapid development with growing and conflicting demands on the natural resources. Currently, lack of integrated and efficient coastal administration, destruction of coastal land cover, intensification of environmental pollution, inadequate tourism investment have been overshadowed the optimum utilization of the tourism within the coastal strip of Guilan, a province in the south coastline of the Caspian Sea. Study ahead, aims at presenting an Integrated Coastal Tourism Zone Management (ICTZM) plan regarded simultaneously social, cultural and economical criteria along with spatial planning in terms of environmental capabilities to overcome the mentioned problems. For this purpose, areas with tourism potentiality owing less environmental vulnerability were identified using Fuzzy and Boolean logics in the environment of IDRISI KILIMANJARO Software. Afterward, a strategic planning for tourism management was presented for the selected zones using SWOT Method. Accordingly, based on the country’s macro policies for tourism industry, an Integrated Coastal Tourism Zone Management (ICTZM) framework was provided in the form of a conceptual model. The obtained results revealed that the main strategy to implement the sustainable coastal tourism in the study area should be based on a conservative approach and after the improvement in the conditions; the development and construction strategy can be executed in the coastal zone.
Starting Page	635
Ending Page	646
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	42
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/24790/1/IJMS%2042(5)%20635-646.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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