The Kanibarazan Wetland in the south of Lake Urmia and north of Mahabad County has the high potential for ecotourism. Developing tourism in this wetland and its peripheral areas, observing its environmental regulations as a wildlife refuge, can create sustained revenues for management and conservation of wetland. Moreover, this Issue can associate local communities to the wetland more than the past. Certainly, the dependence of rural people and local communities on the wetland through tourism development, at first, reduces their harvesting of wetland production, destruction and threats, and secondly, increases the incentives for wetland conservation in a participatory manner indirectly.
This report is the first part of the study and the preparation of the comprehensive tourism development plan for the Kanibarazan International Wetland, entitled "Basic Studies and Physical Spatial Planning". In this report, the strategic plan document (mission, goals and strategies), and the physical-spatial plan document (functions and land use areas) will be prepared by analyzing the status of the project in the national and regional documents, identifying and analyzing the status of the land in different fields and Identify the client’s points of view and expectations.