eng
University of Science and Culture
International journal of Tourism, Culture & Spirituality
2783-3844
2019-10-01
4
1
9
31
10.22133/ijts.2019.95828
95828
Volunteer Tourism; an Approach to Realize Spirituality (A New Look of Iranian Pro-Poor Tourism)
Ali Asghar Shalbafian
ashalbafian@semnan.ac.ir
1
Neda Zarandian
nedazarandian@gmail.com
2
Tourism faculty, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
MA in tourism management, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
Spirituality in the present world has surpassed different geographical, racial, religious, gender, and etc. boundaries. The issue has emerged under such different titles as religion, originality, the meaning of life, etc., and raised a number of debates. The enthusiasm in seeking meaning has been manifested in various fields including tourism as much as the journey is sometimes interpreted seeking for meaning. However, it is yet unclear how the two areas are linked together in different tourism approaches and branches. Volunteer tourism, among these, is known as one of the increasingly prevalent approaches to various forms of tourism. In this regard, the present research intends to find the relationship between volunteer tourism approach and spirituality highlighting literature review. Then, relying on practically available pieces of evidence, spiritual effects of Iranian Pro-poor tourism (Travel of Iranian volunteers to deprived areas) is reviewed and emphasized on volunteer tourists as an Islamic-Iranian voluntary traveling model.
https://ijtcs.usc.ac.ir/article_95828_6cddf8332a5033f4710fe4573f56e8a6.pdf
Spirituality
Tourism
volunteer tourism
Iranian Pro-Poor Tourism
eng
University of Science and Culture
International journal of Tourism, Culture & Spirituality
2783-3844
2019-10-01
4
1
33
55
10.22133/ijts.2019.95829
95829
مقاله پژوهشی
The influence of spiritual experience on the brand of religious place
Yazdan Shirmohammadi
y.shirmohammadi@pnu.ac.ir
1
Parisa Abyaran
abiyaranp@yahoo.com
2
Department of Commerce Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
Expert of Commercial Management of Payame Noor University,
This paper studies a theoretical model of moderated mediation in which religious learning assists as an intervening mechanism that explains the moderated relationships between brand image and the dimensions of travel benefits (tranquility and health). The study also considers the four dimensions of direct effects of a spiritual experience including (Sense of bliss, Elimination of the life concerns, Emotional involvement and Interaction). The results of the study of 384 religious tourists provide support for this integrated model across the dimensions of travel benefits. Furthermore, the results of the studies conducted on the domestic tourists verify this integrated model along with the dimensions of the religious travel advantages. The moderating effect of the religious learning is expected to have a positive impact of the brand image on the religious travel benefits as this learning strengthens the positive linkage. Additionally, the spiritual experiences enhance the positive effect of the religious travel benefits through the brand image. The present findings also indicate that the Religious travel benefit have direct effects on health and tranquility Variables via Brand image and religious learning. A model is implemented here in order to measure the strength of the findings and it is argued how this moderated mediation pattern could be shown using the empirical evidence of the religious beliefs concentrated on the various religious experiences of the tourists.
https://ijtcs.usc.ac.ir/article_95829_7200a084228629dc2999def87a0f65ea.pdf
spiritual experience
religious beliefs
Brand Image
religious learning
religious travel benefit
eng
University of Science and Culture
International journal of Tourism, Culture & Spirituality
2783-3844
2019-10-01
4
1
57
79
10.22133/ijts.2019.95830
95830
مقاله پژوهشی
Aspects of Spirituality in Eco-Lodges’ Landscape in Iran (from the Perspective of Tourists)
Mahdieh sabaghpour azarian
mahdieh.sabaghpour@gmail.com
1
Mohammadreza Rezvani
rrezvani@ut.ac.ir
2
Vajhollah Ghorbanizadeh
ghorbanizadeh@atu.ac.ir
3
Mohammad Hossein Imani Khoshkhoo
imanikhoshkhoo@usc.ac.ir
4
PhD Candidate in Tourism Management, University of Science and Culture
University of Tehran
Faculty Member of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabaei University
Tourism Department, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
It is truly undeniable that tourism is a system leading to epistemology and resulting in spiritual growth and excellence. The mission of the journey lies in its spiritual achievements and eco-lodges provide the potential context for mutual interconnections and gaining meaning and excellence. Therefore, lacking emphasis on spiritual potentials of eco-lodges in the accommodation sector is the main concern of this research. The present study aims to identify the factors influencing the landscape development of eco-lodges from the viewpoint of tourists to explain and analyze the realization of the spiritual landscape of eco-lodges via the perception of the eco-lodges’ landscape. The main concern of this qualitative research is seeking what a tourist sees, what he understands, how the type of accommodation would lead him from objectivity to subjectivity and ultimately, how the perception of the spiritual landscape from tourist’s view is. Answering research questions through the qualitative method with an interpretive approach and inductive strategy has been conducted by a semi-structured interview tool. Besides, the research data is gathered via two phases of coding the general concepts and classification of concepts based on the frequency. Lastly, the findings have been analyzed and interpreted through a conceptual framework. Based on research results, staying in eco-lodge causes leading resident tourist from objectivity to subjectivity and this is derived from perception of spiritual landscape. The components of the eco-lodges’ landscape adapting with three parameters of spirituality in tourism, lead tourists to the perception of the spiritual landscape as well as the realization of the mutual understanding of nature and man in the journey and the achievement of the meaning and spirit through accommodation in eco-lodges.
https://ijtcs.usc.ac.ir/article_95830_4d198c29f80ec04f0ff378615d5a3a1b.pdf
Tourism and Spirituality
landscape
Eco-lodge
Accommodation
Destination
eng
University of Science and Culture
International journal of Tourism, Culture & Spirituality
2783-3844
2019-10-01
4
1
77
91
10.22133/ijts.2019.95831
95831
مقاله پژوهشی
Tourist Perception of Waqf as Spiritual heritage in Iran
Manoochehr Jahanian
jahanian@usc.ac.ir
1
sahar movahedi
s.movahedi62@gmail.com
2
tourism department, university of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
Head of tourism research center of ACECR in Isfahan university
As a symbol of the Islamic spiritual economy, Waqf has been always present and alive in all aspects of the Islamic countries, and it has attracted the attentions of many researchers of different fields due to its multidimensional functional. Based on their desire for eternity, they defined Waqf in terms of a proverb saying “I benefit from whatever I endow”. In several tourists’ travelogues such as travelogues by Nasir Khusraw, Jean Chardin, etc. has mentioned this spiritual tradition as a humanistic economy showing the effects of Waqf on perceiving the tourist destination. Since the modern generation of tourists look for new experiences, thus obtaining a rich content of this spiritual heritage can satisfy them and help the promotion of humanistic models of economy such as Waqf. In terms of its objective, this is a practical research, and it is descriptive-analytical based on its data collection method. The results are obtained in meta-synthesis of documents, articles and travelogues relation to the Waqf tradition. Indeed, the main objective of this article is to provide the mentioned introduction, promotion and reinforcement to understand the different aspects of Waqf tradition based on the travelogues in order to reinforce the perceived value by the tourists of Iranian cities so that the modeling of these concepts leads to the promotion of this spiritual economy model among the other cultures. The results show that considering the perceivable aspects of Waqf, this intangible heritage can be introduced to the tourists in terms of four main aspects including the emotional, cognitive, functional and social aspects and to promote this spiritual heritage based on the religious background of tourists at the international level with regard to the environmental-humanistic aspects of economy; as in Iranian culture, it is believed that “give bread to everyone who enters this house and don’t ask his faith, because the one who deserves a life for god, deserves a bread for us”.
https://ijtcs.usc.ac.ir/article_95831_1bb48e1f84ad29fc962c3d37544fb178.pdf
Waqf
Spiritual economy
Tourist perception
Iran culture
eng
University of Science and Culture
International journal of Tourism, Culture & Spirituality
2783-3844
2019-10-01
4
1
93
123
10.22133/ijts.2019.95834
95834
مقاله پژوهشی
Strategic Planning of Tourism with an emphasis on Spirituality Based on New Integration of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques
Mohammad Reza Fathi
reza.fathi@ut.ac.ir
1
Mohammad Hasan Maleki
sa.maleki931@gmail.com
2
Mohammadreza Boroomand
mboroomand70@gmail.com
3
Can Deniz Koksal
candeniz@akdeniz.edu.tr
4
Assistant Professor, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Iran
Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Management, University of Qom, Qom, Iran
M.Sc. Candidate of MBA, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
Professor, Department of Business, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
The purpose of the present study is to identify and prioritize spiritual-based tourism strategies in Qom province. The present study is interpretive from the philosophical foundations point of view and is applied from the point of view of orientation. It is also a survey in terms of data collection and from a methodological point of view, it is qualitative. The statistical population of the study is the experts and managers in the field of tourism and the sampling method is judgmental. 10 experts were selected from among the samples. In order to carry out the research, internal and external factors affecting the spiritual-based tourism in Qom province were identified through reviewing the literature and interviewing experts. After the internal and external factors were screened, 15 internal and 14 external factors remained. In addition, the nature of internal and external factors was identified in terms of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and the most effective factors were determined by using the DEMATEL technique for preparing the SWOT table. With identifying the final list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, strategies were prioritized from the perspective of research experts by ARAS method. Three strategies to support provincial headquarters, banks and entrepreneurship funds from web-based tourism businesses and social networks, defining research priorities of tourism-related organizations based on civil society support, and strengthening training programs to justify diversity in the community and its benefits had the highest priority.
https://ijtcs.usc.ac.ir/article_95834_8e6d7a4741917860ca42155a16d798e5.pdf
strategy
Tourism
Spirituality
Strategic Planning