Urban Tourism Management focusing on the planning of tourist attracting urban spaces

For years urban spaces throughout the world have been among the most important sites for tourism objectives. Cities are composed of elements, components, spaces, functions and governing rules, as well as current affairs and issues associated with them. They, as the largest complexes of human works, induce various effects of beauty. Urban tourism space is a place in which tourism resources exist and the behavioral pattern of tourists is a function of that resources. The necessity of the present study is originated from the fact that due to the historical, cultural and natural capacities of Kermanshah, there are a lot of potentials for attracting tourists in this city and consequently taking advantages of those potentials. Applying dynamic management would lead to the positive economic, social and cultural effects. It will also lead to creation of an urban tourism hub in the west of the country. The methodology used in this study is descriptive - analytical and data is collected through field and library methods. Information obtained through questionnaire is categorized into twenty partite indices. Then it is summarized to significant factors through factor analysis model. And finally, the contribution and function of each factor in urban tourism management have been determined. The results suggest that the factor of expansion of infrastructural facilities and services with a specific amount of 3.31 and the variance of 29.8 percent is the first and most significant factor that is most fitting. Thus, variables related to the development of infrastructural facilities and services are the most effective ones in urban tourism spaces management. The second effective factor is proper and scientific designing and planning with a specific amount of 2.78 and variance of 22.47percent.