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University of Isfahan
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Nowadays, indicators have increasingly become a useful tool for policy making and monitoring affairs. Meanwhile, the tourism sector, especially urban tourism, needs to use efficient indicators in order to evaluate and make correct policies and achieve prosperity. Therefore, in the current research, the explanation of the indicators of the prosperity model of urban tourism is considered. The type of current research is applied-developmental and exploratory and its research method is descriptive-analytical and survey. Also, the approach that governs it in terms of its nature is theoretical analysis. In this research, theoretical literature in the field related to the subject has been examined with a structural and systematic point of view; in the next step, through the Delphi method, the influential components in the prosperity of urban tourism were extracted in different dimensions. The statistical population of this research is made up of elites, specialists and experts in urban management and tourism. Using the purposeful sampling method, 154 people were selected as the statistical sample of the research and their opinions were used. In the next step, structural equation modeling approach based on partial least squares has been used in order to validate the designed pattern of urban tourism development. Finally, with the help of Smart-PLS3 software, second-order confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the designed model. By carrying out this scientific process, the influential components in the prosperity of urban tourism were identified in five dimensions (economic, socio-cultural, infrastructural, sustainable and institutional). The results show that the presented model has an acceptable fit. In this regard, the highest amount of extracted average variance was related to the "socio-cultural" index with (0.81), and the lowest value was related to the "economic" index with (0.47).
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