Exploring Qanat as a Virtual Tourism Attraction in Iran: Cultural, Natural, and Environmental Significance

Abstract

Qanat has many valued tourist attractions and adventure, cultural, natural, and environmental attractions can be considered one of the world's main tourist destinations. Qanat as a new tourism attraction can help develop the tourism sector in Iran. Also, the determination to recognize and introduce the tourism potentials of the qanat is more than beneficial it is an essential task of science and culture and is mainly related to Iranian culture. In other words, tourism and its revenues can give rise to more motivation for sustaining qanats. Iran, in terms of historical, cultural, and natural diversity, has many valuable potential, and regional planning, and comprehensive principles can be considered one of the main destinations of tourism heritage. The study indicates that Qanat is one of the most relevant man-made attractions in Iran which is contributing to the development of Persian heritage. It gives interesting routes for tourists who are interested in cultural tourism experiences. This study aims to identify Bayazeh Qanat online visitors who are attracted by website design. For this purpose, we designed the site www.marefatnia.zgig.ir which is used by Google Map API.