An Analysis of Tourism Development in Shandiz Resort

Over recent decades, there has been paid so much attention to tourism in different communities and because of its making economical benefits, developing employment, importing foreign currency, making Iran culture known so much effort has been done for developing tourism industry. Taking advantage of tourism valuable benefits is possible if we get sufficient recognition with the nature of this phenomenon and its characteristics and tourism potentials of Iran’s different regions. Shandiz has been familiar to tourists and this indicates this region’s geographical, Cultural and historical high position. However, In spite of locating around cosmopolitan Mashhad and having natural gifts, Shandiz has not developed satisfactorily and has not become one of the profitable regions of Iran’ economy.