Assessing the effects of tourism on the development of the urban economy)Case study: Ardabil city(

Development planners and policy makers mention tourism as the main pillar of development and in this regard, tourism with principled planning and identification of advantages and limitations can play an effective role in urban and rural development, national development and diversification of the national economy and thus economic development of cities. In this regard, the present study examines and evaluates the effects of tourism on the economic development of Erbil. The statistical population of the study includes 80 experts and tourism industry experts in Ardabil. According to the objectives of the research, the three components of economic justice, economic stability and economic welfare were used in the form of 23 items. The questionnaire was designed with closed-ended questions in the form of Likert scale (very high, high, medium, low and very low). LISREL and SPSS software were used to analyze the data. The results of data analysis showed that the highest factor load among the indicators of economic justice dimension is the average annual household income (factor load 0.81), among the indicators of economic stability factor is the rapid growth of the commercial services sector (factor load 0.87) and Among the indicators of economic welfare, the item of increasing the number of service and welfare centers (factor load 0.87) is assigned. In other words, these indicators have been most affected by tourism. Among the three dimensions, the economic welfare dimension with a coefficient of 0.94, the economic stability dimension with a coefficient of 0.90 and the economic justice dimension with a coefficient of 0.85 had the most impact on tourism, respectively.