Biophilic Approach in Urban Tourism (Case study: Isfahan City)

Human life depends on the survival of nature, and without nature human life is doomed to destruction. Given the importance of nature in human life, as well as the proliferation of cities, the integration of nature in cities for the survival of human beings is inevitable. Now, considering the importance of integrating nature in cities with a more specialized concept as biophilic cities, the researcher examined the Biophilic indices in Isfahan on tourism (cognitive image - affective image - word of mouth and intention to visit). Structural equation method in Smart PLS 3 software was used to analyze the data. The results indicate that all four hypotheses of the study were confirmed and the Biophilic indices in Isfahan had effect on affective image, cognitive image, word of mouth and tourists' intention to visit, and the most impact was related to the affective image factor.