tourist attractions

In the past tourism was a very special activity and only special people with good social and economic stances could be a part of this activity. These people were mostly some visitors that besides the traveling would record every event and situation carefully, and today this information is available as ethnography findings. But today tourism has turned into business pillar and has a great income for countries with tourist attractions. Generally the entrance of tourists to host communities has some outcomes in that places and they can be analyzed from the perspective of anthropology, tourism, finding such as identifying cultural elements, customs, environmental effects on social and life relationships. Fars province because of having diverse tourist attractions is of the most important tourist attraction and anthropology tourism studies areas, Because of that the main purpose of this paper is to analyze the Fars province tourist attractions with anthropology and to discover the positive and negative cultural-social effects of tourism. The used research method is descriptive and the needed information was gathered using the documentary method (Books, Magazines and the Internet). And in the theoretical framework of this paper the Butler theory was used.

Tourism is traveling for recreational, leisure, or business purposes, usually for a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with trans-national travel, but may also refer to travel to another location within the same country.  Iran is world famous for kind hospitality, friendliness, and beautiful landscapes and villages. Beautiful historical areas, like Ardabil, have been visited by many foreign and domestic tourists.  Therefore, the main purpose in this paper is to investigate the aspects of tourism in Ardabil from a sustainable and sociological view and also to study and introduce  Ardabil's Tourist Attractions. The method in this paper is qualitative and also action research and tools of data collection are documental and interviewing research participants.   It is worth mentioning that the present research, in its theoretical framework and data analysis, follows the Butler theory. Findings of the study show that Ardabil province has significant potentials for tourist attraction.