The Effect of Chabahar Free Zone on Tourism Development of its Under Influence Area by Using Regression Model and T. Test

Basically, many developed or developing countries have established free zone areas for achieving the aims such as the followings: development of national economy, attraction of foreign finance, benefit from regional relative advantages, creation of employment opportunities, increase the income of service activities, regional development and change of back warded countries to development centers and development of tourism activities in free zones is considered as one of the main strategies for realization of the said objectives. Chabahar Industrial-Commercial free Zone Organization is one of the free zones of Iran, which through development of tourism functions as one of the strategies and objectives of development can realize the regional development at south east part of Iran. The results of Regression analysis of this research indicates that the components of sea transportations, advertisement and marketing, Tourism, health facilities and recreational and culture facilities with coefficients of 0.087/ 0.081/ 0.078 and 0.076 respectively has had the highest effect and factors such as infrastructures related to gas, telephone and management with coefficients of 0.034, 0.060 and 0.061 respectively have the least effect on this unsuccessful trend. Now, the result of this study is that for removing such inadequacies, the elements including development of advertisement and marketing, rail transportation, infrastructures related to swage, establishment of sport facilities, increase the number of travel agencies and accommodation areas and tourism guide in the future, mean while changing the regional tourism management and moving toward a unique and comprehensive management and participation of local people in all stages of planning and execution of tourism development project can be useful and have the greatest effect on tourism development of Chabahar area.