madineh fallah; Teimour Amar; Mohammad baset Ghoreishi
Abstract
Fuman Township has consistently attracted domestic and foreign tourists due to its unique natural, human, and cultural attractions. The expansion of tourism flows in the township, coupled with a lack of efficient planning and management, has resulted in various positive and negative economic, physical, ...
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Fuman Township has consistently attracted domestic and foreign tourists due to its unique natural, human, and cultural attractions. The expansion of tourism flows in the township, coupled with a lack of efficient planning and management, has resulted in various positive and negative economic, physical, and environmental impacts. This article aims to identify the physical damages of tourism and propose appropriate strategies to mitigate these damages, with the goal of proper planning in the sensitive and fragile rural environment of this township. The research is applied in nature, employs a descriptive-analytical method, and the data were collected using documentary sources, field studies, and the opinions of local managers. The sample population consists of 120 villages out of the total 171 villages in Fuman Township. The results indicate that the identified physical damages directly or indirectly affected by tourism activities fall into three main categories: land-use change, ownership change and the formation of non-local ownership, the growth of second homes, and disruption in housing patterns. Based on the findings, strategies such as implementing policies to control tourism development, improving existing networks, focusing on communication routes, preparing a regional spatial planning scheme, and organizing, managing, and increasing supervision over tourism-related activities are proposed.
Golnaz Hashemnia; Teymur Amar; Nasrollah Molaei hashjin; Mohammadbaset Ghoreshi minabad
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The village is the first form of human collective life in a natural arena that has special economic, social-cultural, and physical characteristics. With changes in the activities and characteristics of rural settlements through the expansion of physical space, increase in population and changes in functions, ...
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The village is the first form of human collective life in a natural arena that has special economic, social-cultural, and physical characteristics. With changes in the activities and characteristics of rural settlements through the expansion of physical space, increase in population and changes in functions, some of them undergo profound transformation. Over time, they experience special physical conditions and gradually become inclined towards urban functions, and the activities also change from agriculture to industry and services. The present study was conducted with the aim of measuring agricultural land use changes and its physical-spatial consequences in Khammam district. The applied method is descriptive-analytical. Data and information have been collected by observation, documentary and field methods. GIS software is used for data analysis. Then, the changes in agricultural land use from 1996 to 2016 have been extracted, compared and analyzed in three classes of agriculture, man-made and barren space. The findings indicate that a significant area of productive land in the studied villages has been changed in favor of other uses. Field observations and questionnaire outputs also indicate that a large area of agricultural land, especially in the target villages of tourism, has been converted into second homes, tourist towns and residential complexes. Also, Most of the effects of tourism are on garden and agricultural lands.
