Eco-Cultural Tourism Development and Settlement System Sustainability in the Borders of Desert

This study tried to study the strategies for reaching a sustainable settlement system in the desert of Hasanabad in accordance with tourism potentials of the mentioned region. The research is developmental-applied based of goal and it is descriptive-nalytical based of method. The required data were collected by documentary, survey, Opinion Polling methods and questionnaire. 382 settlers and 341 tourists were selected as the sample of the society. To test the hypotheses, Chi Square, and Factor Analysis were used and the planning tourist development was conducted using SWOT model. The results of this study show that developing desert tourism and local participation strategy have the most
significant effects on attracting tourists. These have a significant role in the development of the area of the study.