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Reza Shafei

Reza Shafei

Academic rank: Associate Professor
ORCID:
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 36631024400
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Address: Department of Business Management, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences , University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran
Phone: 08733664606

Research

Title
Branding for heritages, the ancient tourism leads to improvement of the local economy (evidence from a study in Iran)
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
place branding; heritage; historic place branding; ancient tourism; local economic
Year
2023
Journal International Journal of Management Practice
DOI
Researchers Eqbal Yavari ، Reza Shafei ، Adel Fatemi

Abstract

The dimensions of this phenomenon discussed by in-depth semi-structured interviews with 18-member samples composed of experts in different fields: marketing, economic, tourism and cultural heritage. Six main categories, 61 sub-categories and 171 concepts categorized by applying grounded theory method were used in the study. The findings showed that the historical place-branding model is composed of the causal, core, contextual, interfering factors, strategies and consequence. In addition, the results of the experts' opinion survey revealed that having a brand specific to historical places could lead to increased income, job creation, produce of local tourism production, economic dynamics, and Eco-tourism development in historic areas.