Analysis of Nomadic Tourism Research’s Trends in Iran

There are many resources and capacities for the development of nomadic tourism in Iran, which have been neglected in terms of implementation and research. The necessity of examining the process of scientific research in any field of knowledge is due to the importance of presenting a clear picture of the scientific course of these researches and identifying research gaps in that field of knowledge.Purpose of the research: The purpose of this research is to describe and analyze the content of Iranian nomadic tourism researches.

The current research is descriptive-exploratory in terms of its purpose, in terms of the nature of the data, it is qualitative based on archival secondary data, and in terms of analysis, it is quantitative based on quantitative content analysis. The statistical population of the research includes all scientific articles and theses that have been published focusing on nomadic tourism. Upon receiving the files of these studies, they were combined and analyzed based on the research questions using SPSS22 and Microsoft-Excel 2016 software.Geographical area of research: The current research does not have a specific geographical area and with the approach of documentary-archival review, it has considered all the researches in the field of nomadic tourism.

The number of nomadic tourism researches is 68, and its beginning dates back to 1386. In 1400 and 1401, the largest number of it was published, but in 1402, it faced a significant decrease. 53% of the researches have been published in the geographical field. The most academic specialization has been combined (interdisciplinary) and geographical.The most subject trends are related to planning issues, capacity measurement of resources in nomadic regions and communities, and the effects of nomadic tourism, and most study approaches are related to scientific and knowledge-oriented approaches. Nomadic tourism is more related to the approaches of natural-cultural tourism, rural tourism and the construction of eco-residence. Qashqai and Bakhtiari tribes and Fars and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari provinces were considered more than others in these studies. Most of the researches have used the quantitative method. The impactful role of nomadic tourism has been more pronounced and these researches have been conducted mostly from the supply-side.

As a general conclusion, the researchers of this field have taken the scientific and knowledge-oriented process in nomadic tourism researches and as a result policy making and the correct implementation of policies, but the process of these researches has suffered a premature decline in 1402. Practical suggestions based on findings and results were presented to the extent of adaptation by researchers in order to modify previous approaches or start new researches in this field.