Assessing the resilience of tourism businesses against the drought of Lake Urmia Case study: Coastal villages of Shabstar city

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

10.30490/rvt.2023.361506.1515

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The general purpose of this research is to evaluate the resilience of tourism businesses in the rural areas of Shabstar city against the drought of Lake Urmia. The statistical population of the research is all owners of different businesses related to the tourism sector in the coastal villages of the city, and according to the size of the statistical population and based on Cochran's sampling formula, 350people were selected as the sample size by simple random method. The results of the research showed that in the studied villages, tourism businesses are not at a suitable level in terms of resilience indicators. Also, the results of the studies showed that the resilience of businesses related to tourism in the coastal villages of the city is lower than average. The results of the field findings show that the dimensions of resilience from the perspective of the villagers have different averages, the highest average is related to the dimension of human capital (2.16) and the lowest is related to the economic dimension (1.22). It is Also, the stratification of the 7 studied villages based on Mirka's decision-making technique shows that each of the villages were at different levels of resilience, and that various factors had an effect on their resilience, such that the villages of Ali Biglo, Qara Tepe and Kafi al-Mulk were at the resilience level. Average yield and the rest of the village were in the low and very low level of resilience.

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