The Impacts of Religious Tourism on Urban Sustainable Development Process; Zanjan City – Iran

Abstract:-This study with the goal of examining phenomena and positive features of Zanjan city that is recognized as one of religious cities as well one of tourism poles in Iran and its buildings are registered as in the world records and its relationship with sustainable development of the region has been analyzed. Research method in this research is descriptive-analytical and data gathering was done in forms of library and field (questionnaires, observation and interviews) gathering. The results obtained from the questionnaire shows that by analysis average number of tourism in the sample city based on single- sample t test showed high levels in all the disciplines of study that it shows religious tourism in aspects of social, economic, biology physical and environmental which by better planning and management of components in each aspects can lead to improved urban infrastructure development in the study region and in all aspects being impressible was positive and most of this impressible was in the economic dimension. On the other hand, using the Friedman test shows that the highest mean rank relates to environmental aspect and the lowest it relates to economic one.

tourism, religious tourism, sustainable urban development.