Autori
Bizzarri, Carmen
Gonzalez Lopez, Sergio

Titolo
Tourism in Iran: from pilgrimage to local economic development
Periodico
Geoprogress journal
Anno: 2014 - Volume: 1 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 23 - Pagina finale: 33

Iran is a country very rich in natural resources and major infrastructure predominantly Shiite religious, which attracts many pilgrims, especially at the international level as well as nationally. The contribution in addition to describing the phenomenon of tourism -religious in this country, it examines the effects of localized mainly in the city of Mashhad. In this urban area, the religious phenomenon is mixed with the tourist so that the current size of the city is due to the pilgrimage of the devout Shiites. The explosion of this type of tourism is believed to be derived from two main factors: the first one after the various diasporas of the Iranians, the Shia religion has spread throughout the Middle East and the Mashhad city, being close to the border with Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, has become the center of the Shiite pilgrimage for all of these areas, the second is derived from the increased role of religion in social and economic dynamics, such as to result in a purely locational extending the area of the Mosque. The contribution will analyze the phenomenon of tourism in relation to urban sprawl taking as a model the functionalist analysis



SICI: 2384-9398(2014)1:2<23:TIIFPT>2.0.ZU;2-7
Testo completo: http://www.geoprogress.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/GPJ-vol-2-03Bizzarri-Lopez.pdf

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