Analyzing The Roles and Impacts of Urban Tourism on Sustainable Urban Development; Focusing on Citizens Perception

Based on the bilateral relationship among sustainable development and sustainable tourism- In order to assist sustainable urban development- its impact on city should be identified. Base on the mentioned hypothesis this article tries to survey the positive and negative impacts of urban tourism development and citizens’ perception of various tourism development impacts on urban sustainable development aspects. In fact, resident’s perception and influences of tourism impacts and their satisfaction is one of the most important criteria of achieving sustainable development. But, in most similar cases of analyzing the impact of tourism on urban development, this criterion is not considered. The presented article is an analytic-applied research based on quantitative analysis methods. Therefore, in order to analyze the Sarein inhabitants, questioner technique is done. The result of this analysis shows that aside positive economical effect of urban tourism, it has got enormous positive effect on urban society too. In addition, it has got effects (positive & negative) on the target groups, economy and environment. Furthermore, the amount of the effects is different on various part of the city, therefore it is essential to have divided analysis.