Motivational Factors of Travel to War Places in Iran

Iran and Iraq war is not only the longest conventional war in 20th century, but also it is one of the most destructive wars of the world after World War II. During this long and unequal battle, brave defendants of the homeland with their unique braveries threw the violating enemy from Iran soil and created eternal epics. These eternal epics occurred with martyrdom and sacrifice of thousand children of this land and thousand soldiers were martyred in pure soil of the battle fronts. For this reason, appreciating and zealous people of Iran in years after holy defense founded tradition of visiting war zones and foothold of the soldiers and defenders of the land and this proper tradition was formed as caravans called Rahian Noor and hundred persons came to see war zones individually and collectively.

What is important is that different factors caused to motivate the persons to travel to these zones and recognition of these factors can increase travel to these zones. This research has been done with use of semi-structured interview method.

On the basis of results of this research, sacredness of the war places in Iran, values of Iranian culture, interest in seeing the left monuments and identity dependency caused to travel to battle fields in Iran.