عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Tourism is known as a clean and dynamic industry that, if developed, will bring many benefits, including increased social justice and employment for the community, and will develop further if urban infrastructure is available. Intense competition between cities as tourism destinations has forced cities to find solutions to differentiate themselves from other cities and tourism destinations. Creative city is a new and interesting topic in the field of urban planning and plays a fundamental role in the growth and development of the city. The emergence and spread of the idea of creative city is evidence of this claim, and it can be said that tourism development is one of the surest ways to achieve creative cities. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effects of tourism potential on the development of infrastructure and the formation of a creative city in Kermanshah city. The research method is descriptive-analytical and the main tool for collecting data is a questionnaire. The statistical population of the study is the residents of Kermanshah city. The sample size was determined using the Cochran formula of 385 questionnaires, and the structural equation modeling (SEM) method was used to analyze the results of the questionnaire using Amos software. The research findings show that tourism potentials are effective in expanding infrastructure and forming creative tourism and creativity in Kermanshah city, because the significance level (p value) for both paths was less than 0.05.