Analysis of the reality of the tourist movement in the district of Zakho

Authors

  • Njeen Gh. Taher Department of Geography - College of Humanities - University of Dohuk, Kurdistan, Iraq
  • Ahmad A. Hasan Al-Bayoti Department of Geography - College of Humanities (Visitor at Nawroz University) - University of Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v10n3a1215

Abstract

Since the fifties of the last century, the world has witnessed a significant increase in the number of tourists, both internally and externally, due to the great development in the field of transportation and the improvement in the income levels of individuals. And after tourism has become an industry, its development requires standing on its components and knowing the trends of its movement, and with the aim of identifying the demographic, economic, social and cultural characteristics of tourists and the activities and events that tourists practice in their spare time, and to reach an explanation of the tourism movement and to diagnose the effectiveness of the tourism activity in it, the Zakho district was chosen as a location for the study. Two types of data were relied on, the first of which is the data and the monthly statistical information recorded on the number of frequent guests to hotels and motels in the district, and the second is the data obtained from the results of the questionnaire distributed to tourists according to the tourist sites in the tourist season to show the trends and desires of tourists and know their impressions about the sites Tourism in terms of the services provided and the nature of the obstacles.
Based on the foregoing, the study concluded that the promising type of tourism in the region is eco-tourism, natural and mountainous, and the months of July and August represent the best months in terms of tourist movement, while tourists outside the region constitute the largest proportion of the number of tourists coming to the region, with the young group dominated between (15-45) years after the majority of the number of tourists, and cars are the most used means of transportation.

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Published

2021-08-07

How to Cite

Gh. Taher, N., & A. Hasan Al-Bayoti, A. (2021). Analysis of the reality of the tourist movement in the district of Zakho. Academic Journal of Nawroz University, 10(3), 77–92. https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v10n3a1215

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