Villa Garden Tourism and rural garden cafes on the outskirts of Urmia From the perspective of the power relationship between the city and the village

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Assistant Professor of Geography, Faculty of Literature, University of Urmia, Iran

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Confirming the hypothesis, tourism is a factor in rural development, especially on the outskirts of cities, which is a bit difficult and complex. In this study, it is assumed that tourism in the garden of the villa and the cafe restaurant in the form of discourse has protected the power relations in the city and the village and helped redistribute urban capital. In general, this type of tourism is not a positive function in the development of villages in the study area. In this research, discourse analysis is a suitable methodology for studying the relationship of tourism target villages of Imamzadeh, Band, Gog Tapeh and Burhanloo with Urmia metropolis. The results show that the principles of sustainable development and ideology played a role in formulating the rural tourism discourse of the garden villa and café. The results also suggest that rural tourism discourse has served the interests of the private sector by undermining the interests of the public sector. And this transition has been accomplished through mechanisms such as expropriation and problem-building. Of course, the assumptions of this research can be studied in the different political, social, economic and ideological structure of Iran as well.

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Volume 9, Issue 35
March 2021
Pages 263-285

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