%0 Journal Article
%T The Study of Moderating Role of Social Capital in the Relationship between Development of Urban Tourism and Sustainable Urban Development (Case Study: Zahedan)
%A Masoumeh Hafiz Rezazadeh
%A Fatemeh Hashem Zehi
%A Raziye Eslami Rad
%J Current Urban Studies
%P 461-475
%@ 2328-4919
%D 2016
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/cus.2016.44030
%X The aim of this paper is to study moderating role of social capital in development of tourism and sustainable urban development in the city of Zahedan. We prepared a questionnaire with 30 questions; and based on Cochrane¡¯s sample, we distributed 114 questionnaires among managers of Tourist Organization and hotel managers with a random sampling. Based on these results, Zahedan city does not have a good situation in sustainable development. For testing the hypotheses, single-sample T-test, Pearson¡¯s correlation and hierarchal linear regression were applied. Also the result of testing hypotheses indicates that there is a positive relationship between tourism development and sustainable urban development. In addition, the third hypothesis test showed that social capital had a moderating role on the relationship between development of tourism and sustainable urban development so much that based on hierarchical linear regression test, 25% of the variance in sustainable urban development is explained by the moderating role of social capital.
%K Moderating Role
%K Social Capital
%K Development of Urban Tourism
%K Sustainable Urban Development
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=72469