The Study Views of Climbing Sport Tourists of Ilam City Residents in Order to Develop Tourism with Emphasis on the Safety of Tourists (Case study: mountainous area of Gachan)

In this study, the views of mountaineering sports tourists living in the city of Ilam in the mountainous region of Gachan in order to plan for the development of tourism with emphasis on the security of tourists have been studied.

The research is an applied research, the  methods of data collection is descriptive and analytic, the methods of data analysis is conducted both descriptive and inferential statistics (T & Friedman test).The Statistical Society is consisted of climbing sport tourists of Gachan mountainous area that has been obtained 77 tourists with the use of available sampling or random method.

Based on the findings, Men (66 percent) accounted for the highest percentage of respondents and the largest age group of respondents is between the ages of "25 to 44 year". Tourists often have a bachelor's degree level (37.7 percent) and Diploma (22.1 percent). The origin location of the most Mountaineer tourists is the city of Ilam. Employees (8/33 percent) have formed the highest number of respondents. Most tourists (4/84 percent) access to the area Gachan with private vehicle.Tourists visit the area often "with family" (9/51 percent) and "with friends" (1.22 percent). Often of tourists are agreeing to pay 5,000 rials to 15,000 rials in the right input. Tourists have been reported the main motivations and reasons for choosing the region "tourism, sport and health".

Also, hypothesis test results indicate that in general, level of insecurity in Gachan area for tourists is higher than average which can have a negative effect on tourism and sports tourism.