13 Spring 2021 No. 4 Tourism of Culture, 2(4), 13-20 / Spring 2021 Persian translation of this paper entitled: ردشگرینی در توسعه گیقش منظر آیزخوانی ن با ر همدان محسن شهمزادهمالعه: اونۀ مورد مطا نم is also published in this issue of journal Recived: 14/10/2020 Accepted: 30/12/2020 Available online: 21/04/2021 * Corresponding author: r.khoramrouei@gmail.com, +989186090192 Reviewing the Role of ‘Ritual Landscape’ in Tourism Development Case Study: Imāmzādeh Mohsen in City of Hamadan, Iran Reihaneh Khorramrouei *1 , Amin Mahan 2 1. Ph.D Candidate in landscape Architecture, Univeesity of Tehran, Iran. 2. Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran. Abstract| One of the basis of ‘cultural tourism’ is to address the ritual landscapes in countries, which attract many visitors each year. Generally, the ritual spaces have always been attractive and special to the viewers, either due to the burial of a holy person, or being the symbol of spirituality, the myth and the story referred to in making the building, or even due to the combination of the natural implications. Since, the meaning of the word ‘tourism’ points to the action of ‘travel’ and ‘moving’ for exploring new subjects and frontiers, the study of ritual landscapes is inevitable, as kind of multi-functional landscapes, where points to the object and socio-economic issues in addition to satisfying the people’s minds in case of spirituality and making memories of the environment. Therefore, to better understand the issue, the Imāmzādeh Mohsen, which is located in city of Hamadan as a case study, has been adopted here to review the role of ritual landscape in tourism development. In this research, the holy shrine is assumed as a ritual landscape, by having the characteristics such as “repeatability in holy time and place”, “symbol and metaphor” and “social actions”, that due to its positioning in pure Nature, the holiness of its building (before and after Islam) and the presence of socio-economic activities is considered as a multi-functional item that has the high potential for attracting tourists and developing the tourism industry. The research method in this study is descriptive- analytical one and the data is gathered based on the library information from ancient texts and documents, in addition to site visit of the Imāmzādeh location. Keywords| Ritual landscape, tourism, cultural tourism, objective-subjective, Imāmzādeh Mohsen in Hamadan city. Introduction| The tourism industry has grown significantly in recent years in most countries, which indicates the significance of this phenomenon in human life, having a direct impact on the social and economic relations of countries. Tourism comprises one of the broadest area of spatial and location due to its dynamic nature, and is addressing a series of traveling plans that are being made with the aim of pleasure, recreation and experience, with a temporary and transient nature. In ancient civilization, man has always traveled to other lands for the pilgrimage purpose, in respect to symbols, the honorable people and the holy spaces; where in this journey, has always been encountered with other human beings. In the light of this familiarity and due to the mutual commercial interactions, the human’s attitudes, worldviews and even lifestyle have been gradually Original Research Article DOI: 10.22034/toc.2020.252804.1025