Investigating the Effect of Tourism Income on the City and its Informal Settlements Using Distribution and Growth Approach (Case study: Mashhad city)

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Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

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The study of the relationship between tourism and poverty has been explored extensively by researchers. Nevertheless, the existing literature has not yet fully explored the changes in poverty and the causes of poverty in tourism communities. Especially in Iran, such research seems to be very rare. In order to explain this phenomenon, in this study, an attempt was made to research the effect of tourism development in the city of Mashhad and its surrounding areas. The research method was descriptive and analytical and the required data was collected from a sample of 600 households. The data obtained in this way were evaluated with different statistical methods and Lorenz curve. The results showed that the absolute poverty incidence in tourism communities is higher than the national average. This is while the relative poverty incidence shows a trend of “expanding-shrinking-expanding”. These conditions indicate that the “growth-distribution” decomposition framework of poverty index changes to study the causes of poverty in tourism communities.Therefore, the growth of the tourism sector prevents the continuation of poverty and the survival of the poor in the cycle of poverty, but the contribution of outwork is greater in the growth and distribution components. Therefore, in order to increase the positive effects of tourism, it is necessary to make plans in this area according to local conditions. Because with the proportional distribution of incomes from tourism, not only the conditions of the poor will improve, but also the positive effects of tourism will increase and its negative consequences will be significantly reduced.

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