TY - JOUR ID - 95830 TI - Aspects of Spirituality in Eco-Lodges’ Landscape in Iran (from the Perspective of Tourists) JO - International journal of Tourism, Culture & Spirituality JA - IJTCS LA - en SN - AU - sabaghpour azarian, Mahdieh AU - Rezvani, Mohammadreza AU - Ghorbanizadeh, Vajhollah AU - Imani Khoshkhoo, Mohammad Hossein AD - PhD Candidate in Tourism Management, University of Science and Culture AD - University of Tehran AD - Faculty Member of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabaei University AD - Tourism Department, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 57 EP - 79 KW - Tourism and Spirituality KW - landscape KW - Eco-lodge KW - Accommodation KW - Destination DO - 10.22133/ijts.2019.95830 N2 - It is truly undeniable that tourism is a system leading to epistemology and resulting in spiritual growth and excellence. The mission of the journey lies in its spiritual achievements and eco-lodges provide the potential context for mutual interconnections and gaining meaning and excellence. Therefore, lacking emphasis on spiritual potentials of eco-lodges in the accommodation sector is the main concern of this research. The present study aims to identify the factors influencing the landscape development of eco-lodges from the viewpoint of tourists to explain and analyze the realization of the spiritual landscape of eco-lodges via the perception of the eco-lodges’ landscape. The main concern of this qualitative research is seeking what a tourist sees, what he understands, how the type of accommodation would lead him from objectivity to subjectivity and ultimately, how the perception of the spiritual landscape from tourist’s view is. Answering research questions through the qualitative method with an interpretive approach and inductive strategy has been conducted by a semi-structured interview tool. Besides, the research data is gathered via two phases of coding the general concepts and classification of concepts based on the frequency. Lastly, the findings have been analyzed and interpreted through a conceptual framework. Based on research results, staying in eco-lodge causes leading resident tourist from objectivity to subjectivity and this is derived from perception of spiritual landscape. The components of the eco-lodges’ landscape adapting with three  parameters of spirituality in tourism, lead tourists to the perception of the spiritual landscape as well as the realization of the mutual understanding of nature and man in the journey and the achievement of the meaning and spirit through accommodation in eco-lodges. UR - https://ijtcs.usc.ac.ir/article_95830.html L1 - https://ijtcs.usc.ac.ir/article_95830_4d198c29f80ec04f0ff378615d5a3a1b.pdf ER -