نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استادیار گروه جغرافیا، دانشگاه جیرفت، جیرفت، ایران.
2 استادیار جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه کردستان، سنندج، ایران.
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
In recent decades, rural development policy-makers and planners have tried to develop tourism industry more than ever in rural districts because of both numerous problems and challenges of rural districts (e.g. poverty, unemployment, food insecurity, and migration) and various economic, social, and environmental benefits of tourism. Therefore, any kind of measure in this regard can enhance tourism and also rural development. Hence, the purpose of the present research was to investigate the economic effectiveness of tourism in rural districts and to identify economic capacities of tourism, adopting a descriptive-analytical and heuristic methodology. The population included all rural households of Ravansar and the size of the sample was determined to be 209 persons. The main tool used for data collection was a researcher-made questionnaire whose reliability and validity were approved via following the appropriate methodologies. The results indicated that the mean of economic effectiveness of tourism on the local community was 3.835, i.e. above average. The results of the main economic capacities of tourism using exploratory factor analysis showed that the main factors identified can account for 67 percent of the dependent variable variance. The factors identified, in the order of importance, are ecology-based employment (15.473%), profitability along with capital attraction (15.053%), local marketing (15.022%), tendency to entrepreneurship (12.465%), and development of economic infrastructure (9.673%). Investigating the fitting of the results via modelling in Amos Graphic Software indicated that the factors identified are statistically valid in the form of an experimental model.
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