The Study and Analysis of Tourism Spaces in Urmia City

One of the most important spaces which are among the various destinations, is considered and visited by tourists is cities. Among them densely populated and historical cities attract more tourists. A long time ago, city spaces include the most attractive spaces, because cities are the most attractive and complete settlements of human and involve the main centers of economical, scientifically, recreational, medical and so on. Specially, historical-cultural cities have lots of opportunities for tourist based on ancient and inherited sources, for this reason, they are attractive places for tourists. The method of this research is descriptive, survey and is based on the content analysis and its purpose is investigating cultural and historical spaces of Urmia City and also the opportunities and limitations exist at this part of the city that can have an effective role in planning and managing the tourism of this city. Findings of this research show that the tourism space of the city and mostly covers the central part of the city. This part of the city in spite of appropriate situation and its vicinity to administrative, services and commercial centers and in spite of having urban institutions and equipments, there are some specific problems such as oldness of urban transportation system, low quality of tourism services and facilities. Recommended that raising the standards of tourism services, providing tax credits to private sector for investment in tourism sector, establishing centers of information and advertising and finally, by Urmia City, can help to develop tourism and the dynamics of tourism space of this city.