Climate-Tourism Zoning in order to Develop Urban Tourism (Case Study: Kerman Province Cities)

Tourism is a major sector of the global economy, and it is strongly influenced by climate. A pillar of the tourism development in each city is having favorable climatic condition and determining favorable climate of the times for travel on the city. This study aims to evaluate tourism Kerman comfortable climate and providing monthly calendar of tourism are done. To study the climate of comfort in Kerman first extracted seven figures on climate parameters required monthly synoptic stations in Kerman 16-years period (1378-1393) by using excel. And then the analysis, processing and preparation of databases is calculated TCI's value separately for months. Finally time-place distribution map of climate comfort was drawn by using IDW in the ArcGIS. The results of this study show that in Ordibehesht the highest priority Kerman tourism climate comfort features and is ideal descriptive then Mehr and Farvardin of the same features are described. The lowest priority for the month of Tir and then Mordad, Day and Khordad. According to the time and place conditions, the province has a feature that in both warm and cold conditions, part of the province has suitable climatic conditions, so that in the warm seasons the northern cities and in the cold seasons the southern cities have the ideal situation in the TCI (Tourism Climate Index).