Determination of Capacity of Sport Tourism in Darband Mountains with Sustainable Sports Management Approach

Establishing a favorable balance between the tourism potential of a resource and the extent to which customers are using them is very important and forms the basis of tourism system planning for the development of sports activities. The study is to determine the capacity of sportswear for mountain tourism. In this regard, by identifying three types of physical, real and effective bearing capacity, efforts have been made to planners and designers of such spaces to provide a very reliable basis for decision making and planning for sustainable development. Initially, by using the registration of ground points and preparing land use map using the GIS tool, 165 hectares of the area were selected as useful and usable areas. In the next step, the required parameters were extracted and calculated by examining the records, obtaining the users' votes and the theoretical foundations of the research. Five limiting factors and eleven subsample parameters were used as the coefficient for calculating the actual bearing capacity of the study site. In order to rank the site management capability parameters, a researcher-made questionnaire (Likert spectrum) was provided to users with a history of 384 people. Meanwhile, the highest percentage belonged to the drinking water parameter (4/4) and the lowest point belonged to the parking parameter (1.93). Finally, the physical, real and effective bearing capacity of the study site was estimated (660000, 70686 and 40291) per day.