Foreign Cultural Tourists' Spiritual Perception Factors from Travel to Isfahan

Human beings take a step in the path of discovery and searching the universe. Meanwhile, travel is one of the means of searching wisdom and experience for communicating with the land, nature and the world’s creator, and finding meaning and concept of life. Therefore, humans understand travel as a perception resource and take benefits from it for recognizing themselves and the universe. The term "spiritual perception" is defined as a way for understanding and interpreting all non-material affairs related to the origin of human soul which is being investigated in this research, using the qualitativequantitative method in which the spiritual perception factors were obtained by using concept analysis method after conducting deep interviews with experts in philosophy, psychology, culture and tourism in Dec. 2017. Four factors of human hypothesis, spiritual truth, outward truth and human interaction were considered between March to June 2018. The data gathered was analyzed by using structural equation and using Smart PLS. The results showed that all the hypotheses of research were confirmed and there was a meaningful relationship between tourists' spiritual perception and its effective factors among foreign tourists to Isfahan city.