Explaining the Pattern of Historical Texture Regeneration with Tourism Development Approach (Case Study: Tabriz City)

Urban regeneration to sustain urban spaces seeks to solve the economic, socio-cultural, physical, and environmental problems of distressed textures. On the other hand, urban regeneration with a focus on tourism has been proposed as an approach to protect the values of the historical texture and solve its problems. The historical texture of Tabriz, in spite of having many cultural and identity values, has suffered from inefficiency, exhaustion, environmental problems and economic crises. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of tourism on the regeneration of historical texture in Tabriz city. A questionnaire was designed to analyze the relationship between urban regeneration and tourism development from the historical texture of Tabriz residents after identifying the criteria and indicators of urban regeneration and sustainable tourism development in four economic, socio-cultural, physical, environmental dimensions. The statistical population of this study was 383 residents of the historical texture of Tabriz in 1398. Analyzes were performed using SPSS software and with a two-way test. The results of the research show that tourism is a factor in economic growth and socio-cultural dimension, which increases the sense of place and security of space. In the physical aspect, tourism development eliminates abandoned spaces and creates a connection in the historical texture, enhancing the quality of public services and enhancing the urban landscape, and reducing environmental pollution and increasing per capita green space, consequently.