Current World Environment

Tourism industry, as the most diverse industry across the world, has some subsets. One of the Iran architectural manifestations is caravanserai which has been built on various historical eras. The most improved periods of construction and renovation of caravanserai was belonged to safavid time. Iran at safavid era was regarded as an important linking loop to international traffic. Many passengers came to Iran from various sites. Some were political agents and some other was traders who had travelled to Iran for various reasons, from other countries. Thus building caravanserai, that were considered as a hotel to international and national guests, was regarded so essential at safavid era. For this reason, Safavid Sultans (kings) had regarded it as a necessary point and started to construct caravanserai. In this era, particularly at first shah-Abbas time. Construct of caravanserai had been conducted along with ways and roads constructions and their repairs. Such human-made buildings, have been constructed across global world at various era, sometimes they was established in a region based on its special style and sometimes based on predominant government style. Nowadays, tourism development is known as a nations aims to enter foreign exchange. Regard to present economic problems such as unemployment, poor efficiency at agriculture section and over excess exploitation from natural resources, pay attention to other alternatives such as tourism, apparently is necessary. Cultural tourism and ecotourism is a new approach in economic development that in addition to economic improvement and growth can provide the probability of environment presentation and support the native culture and enrich social customs of that region. Factors of developing tourism, absorb it and region economic growth include identify and introduce ancient works over nature bed, and also taking advantage from caravanserai architecture in order to new space for supply local souvenirs, artificial crafts and temporary or short-term settlement. In this paper, it is tried to study on one ancient works through identify it within nature center (heart) as a modern tourism destination at Mazandaran, which is effective on absorbing tourism.