Creating a pattern for cultural tourist spiritual perception from travel A case study: Esfahan city foreign tourists

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Faculty of Tourism Science, University of Science and Culture

10.22034/jtd.2019.165277.1607

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Human-centered tourism consists of material and immaterial dimensions that are on the planet in the path of knowledge and awareness. Meanwhile, travel, and in particular the culture of peoples in an area, is a valuable resource for gaining awareness of it. Human perception as a cultural tourist, in addition to sensory, sensory, and social-perceived appearances, is linked to spiritual themes that embrace the core of all human receipts. The spiritual perception of the cultural tourist of travel, including the new terms, is first introduced in this research as one of the new concepts of tourism studies. Hence, the cultural perceptual model of traveler's cultural journey has been studied along with a case study on foreign cultural tourists in Isfahan. This research was conducted in a qualitative way based on the discovery, conducted in-depth interviews with experts, observation and interviews with foreign tourists of Isfahan during the winter period of 1396 to summer 1397. Data obtained by content analysis, evaluation and obtained pattern were also verified from the point of view of experts. In the end, the result was that the cultural tourism model of spiritual perception of travel influenced by internal and external factors consists of the default components of the tourist, the esoteric truth, the apparent truth and the tourist's action that during the journey and sensory, environmental and Social affairs.

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