Impacts of Second Home Tourism on Restructuring Rural Settlements: A Case Study on Foudije Village, Bahabad County

Subject Areas : Geography and tourism planning, geography and urban planning, urban planning, architecture, geography and rural planning, political geography

Seyed Mahmoud Mirabolghasemi ¹

1 - Ph.D, Faculty member of Farhangian University, Yazd, Iran

Received: 2019-06-30 Accepted : 2019-06-30 Published : 2019-06-01

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Abstract :

Nowadays, second house tourism is considered as a new phenomenon which can help rural development process through structural, economical, social and cultural renovation of rural residential. Studies have shown that in Iran, second house tourism mostly includes rural areas which have pleasant climate and natural and attractive sights around cosmopolitan and big cities. A part of the present study's significance is related to the village which is one of the villages of dry and less populated areas in Iran located specifically in south-eastern high altitude mountainous region of Behabad in Yazd province. Present study aims to identify and analyze the consequences of second house expansion in rebuilding Foudije village through applying the present sources. Based on the practical aim of the study and data collection, the research method of the present study is descriptive-analytical. Library research and document revision were also applied to produce the theoretical framework and another part of the required data of the study. Moreover, questionnaire, interview and observation were used as research instruments in field study part. The findings of the study have shown that major part of second house construction has happened during the past decade and the owners of the second houses are mainly from Behabad who belong to employee or mid-city dweller levels of society. The findings of the study are summarized as: investment development, population return to the village, physical development and renewal of the streets, infrastructural development, green sights development, environmental improvement of the village. Which in turn, have caused optimal development and renewal of the village through various investment improvement

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