Designing Varzaneh Desert Tourism Resorts with Eco-tourism Development Approach
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This article aims to create a Residential and Recreational Complex and to investigate its impact on improving the living standards of the local Varzaneh desert community. In view of Iran is highly ranked in terms of diversity of natural and climatic phenomena, especially desert climate in the world, in this paper Varzaneh desert was selected as the target and statistical community and practical and developmental purposes have been analyzed and implemented as descriptive and developmental. Using causal analysis, strategies and tactics for ecotourism development in this area have been proposed, so that the research of this paper reflects the fact that the Varzaneh Desert has an aggressive strategy based on supporting its strengths and usability of existing opportunities to overcome the weaknesses and threats facing ecotourism development.
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