Title: Tourism and its role in sustainable rural development.
Abstract: Rural tourism as one of the subdivisions of tourism has provided the possibility of integrated and sustainable rural development through preserving the values and beliefs, creating employment opportunities and increasing the earnings of local residents and developing infrastructural facilities as well. Sustainable rural development has various aspects of which one is rural tourism. The prosperity of rural tourism as a contributory factor of development is of prominent importance since expanding rural tourism is regarded as a key factor in equal distribution of income in society facilitating the grounds for national and regional development. Another goal of developing rural tourism is to create and enhance cooperative development. Individual's Participation pertains to decision-making process, projects' implementation, sharing the benefits of development projects and cooperation in assessing these projects. In this study, descriptive and survey methods have been used. Sample villages of Semnan province have been determined. To collect data, questionnaire and interview instruments have been utilized. 410 questionnaires were responded by rural residents, tourists and the experts of tourism organizations. Gathered information was analysed statistically by SPSS software. Furthermore, binominal test was used to evaluate the hypotheses.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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