Evaluation and Assessment of Tourism Impact on Improving the Quality of Life in Rural Areas the Case Study: Tourism Target Villages of Kermanshah Province

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Geography and rural planning, faculty of Geography, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

Rural tourism due to its rapid development in developed and developing countries in recent decades has caused reconstruction and major changes in the environment and the host society. So the aim of this This study is development in based on objective, descriptive and survey in based on nature and causal-comparative and analytical in based on method. The Statistical Society Includes 14 tourism villages in Kermanshah Province and the sample size was estimated 370 Person based on the Cochran formula which were distributed relatively in Proportion to the population of villages. The data was gathered in library and field studies (questionnaire) method. Superficial validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. Guidance study was conducted in the same region with a population of 30 questionnaire and reliability of the research questionnaire was obtained with Using a special formula Cronbach's alpha in software SPSS and obtained data. In order to Subject analysis was used of framework of the 6 index in the form of 50 items (security and material welfare, quality of housing, environmental health, quality of infrastructure and traffic, employment, income and education). The results of the analysis indicate that based on the Opinions expressed by the local society, tourism in all its dimensions has been a positive impact on quality of life and had most impact on the Security and material welfare index and least impact on the education index

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