The effect of empowerment of human resources in tourism development Case Study: Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad province

Authors

• Ali Shamsoddini
• Elham Derakhshan
• Babraz Karimi

Abstract

Factors affecting the development of advanced societies show that all of these countries hve professional and capable educational institutions, in addition to appropriate infrastructure and high tourism and geographical potential.In this regard, this study examines the impact of empowerment of human resources in the development of tourism in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad  province. This research is descriptive-analysis researches in term of its nature and in term of objective is functional. The population of this study is 130 experts of cultural heritage handicrafts and Tourism organism of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province which 97 of them were randomly selected as the sample studied based on Morgan samples. The data collection tool in this study is a questionnaire which is based on four general questions and 28 specific questions that its validity and reliability is determined by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. To achieve the research objectives, the statistical methods such as correlation, regression and path analysis were used. Based on the calculated correlation coefficients, there is a significant relationship among the four components of job expertise, knowledge and career information, job motivation and attitude and tourism development at %634 , %721, %632 , %704 levels in Fars province, respectively, . The results showed that empowerment of human resources variable, by a factor of 764/0, has a direct and positive impact on the development of tourism industry.

Keywords

• Empowerment of human resources
• Tourism Industry
• Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province

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