Study and analysis of the economic and environmental effects of tourism in rural settlements

Authors

• a t ¹
• Mostafa Kiani ²
• Fatemeh Alsadat kahaki ²

¹ دانشیار گروه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی روستایی، دانشگاه ارومیه، ارومیه، ایران

² Department of Geography - Urmia University

Abstract

The rural development countries is an important objective.az income from agriculture in recent decades has greatly declined and this has caused the agricultural sector to meet the needs and demands of an ever-increasing income of rural residents is not , according to other economic alternatives such as tourism seems necessary. Today, the tourism industry has become widespread in the world, and many countries have been able to improve their status to a significant degree. The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the effects of tourism in the economic development of rural settlements in the saman city is Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari province. In this study, descriptive analytical study with qualitative-quantitative approach and collect the required information from the library and the field is done in two ways In the field study questionnaire was used. It was a simple random sampling method. Research results show that, first of revenue through tourism, more tourism and the service sector has not had much success in the field of agricultural products and handicrafts. It is also clear from the results that the presence of tourists has had a high environmental impact on the tourist destination villages. so if necessary cultural background does not provide for tourism or another language if not institutionalized culture tourism correct, perhaps the most damaging effects of environmental, cultural and economic effects are positive. It was also found between the selected villages, the village Chelevan, most and Village Ilbagi least useful of the phenomenon of tourism in the region have taken.

Keywords

• Rural Development"
• "Economic Development"
• "Tourism"
• " Saman County"

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