Investigating the Effects of Commercial Tourism on Economic, Social and Physical Structures of Cities (Case Study: Aras Free Zone)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of commercial tourism on the economic, social and physical structures of cities in the Aras Free Zone. The research method of the present study is applied in terms of purpose and comparative in terms of descriptive-analytical and causal methods. In the first part, the mean of each item was calculated using a single sample t-test. Then, according to the feedback of experts, multiple linear regression test was used to analyze the effect of dimensions and test the research hypotheses. The results of this study show that the average of each of the dimensions of commercial (4.35), economic (3.92), social (3.72) and physical (3.31) tourism is higher than the theoretical average (3). Due to the positive difference in the overall average of each dimension, it can be said that business tourism affects the existing structures under study. The results of the correlation test show that between business tourism and the three dimensions of research have all been significant and positive. Multiple linear regression tests also show that there is a strong relationship between the effects of commercial tourism and existing structures (R = 0.99). In total, the three structures were able to predict 0.69% of the variance in commercial tourism (F (9,63) = 35.08 p