Determination the key Factors of Creative Touurism Development Based on the Futures Research Approach (Case Study : Izeh City)

Creative Tourism is one of the issues that the authorities and urban planners have always considered; because in the case of growth and development of tourism in a city, the economy of the city is thriving and improves the quality of life of the inhabitants.

the purpose of this study is to determine the key factors affecting the development of creative tourism of izeh city with future research approach.

The present study is an applied research in terms of nature based on the new methods of future research, analytical and exploratory, which has been done by combining qualitative and quantitative models. the collection method in this research is documentation and library. the qualitative data of the questionnaire is open and through interviews, and the quantitative data and data, the questionnaire has been developed and through the questionnaires, delphi method was used. the research population consisted of 60 exper. finally, the mic mac was used to analyze the variables.

Studied Areas: 

The geographical area of this research is Izeh city.

based on the finding, among the 45 variables studied, tourism training programs, urban attractive spaces, quality of life and the tourism information bank have been used in the area of effective factors and variables that were identified in the dichotomous spectrum have also the ability to become effective variables. Finally, based on the effects of variables, direct and indirect relationships of variables in 5 very weak, weak, moderate, moderately strong and very strong effects were classified.

The results of influencing factors indicate that physical – environmental, socio - cultural , economic and institutional factors have the most important effect on the creative tourism of izeh city.