Survey the Impact of Lighting on Urban Security and Tourism Development (Case Study: Shiraz City)

Tourism has affluence affected the country economic، cultural and political aspects. Success in this goal requires attention to the tourism attractions that the lighting is one of the effective factors. Urban lighting increases attractiveness of tourism attractions and improves sense of security in tourists and citizens which has a large impact on tourism development. This paper aimed at emphasizing on the lighting as one of the main elements of urban landscape and its effects on the safety of tourists in Shiraz city. This research methods is based on descriptive، analytical and survey and the necessary data has been collected through interviews and questionnaires. Considering the number of the citizens and tourists، number of samples has been estimated 220 using Cochran formula and SPSS software is used in data analysis. Findings show that over 91 percent of citizens and tourists of the Shiraz have pointed out the effect of lighting on increasing the comfort and safety of citizens and tourists and increasing the time of the tourism activities even late at night. So we can conclude that proper lighting city attractions، in addition to improve the quality of urban life leads to the development of tourism in the Shiraz city.