Planning for Wellness Tourism Center in Isfahan Province, Iran
- 1 Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanities, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
- 2 Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanities, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
Abstract
In today’s life, because of industrial cities with long time of work, environmental pollutions and the aging of the population demanding to have leisure, recreation and outdoor recreations for every group of population, the necessity of construction a place for health outdoor recreation is obvious. Such a place would provide both entertaining in a happy family atmosphere and enjoying from fresh air, healthy food and nature cures like hydrotherapy, fish spa, herbs, acupuncture etc. for all the people from a kid to elderly guy and healthy to sick. This project was aimed to introduce and make a plan for constructing this site, known as wellness tourism center in Isfahan province, Iran. For reaching this purpose with taking advantage of original and second hand text, library resources, filed observations, specialist opinion on questionnaire, SPSS software and analysis and evaluation of statistical models with 2-square test, the best plan for this site has been suggested.
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