Investigating the Impacts of River Tourism on the Quality of Life of Citizens (Case study: Gohar rood River of Rasht City, Iran)

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

Hossein Mousazade ^{1 *} , Farahnaz Akbarzadeh ² , Hassan Mousazadeh ³

1 - Ph. D. student, Dept. of Regional Science, Eotvos Lorand University, Faculty of science, Budapest, Hungary
2 - M.A. of Clinical Psychology, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran
3 - M.A. of General Psychology, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran

Accepted : 2019-02-27 Published : 2019-03-01

Keywords:

Abstract :

The development of river tourism depends on river quality, physical characteristics and river landscape, river marginal landscape, safety and financial safety of tourists, creating roads and facilitating tourists to spend leisure time and providing opportunities for walking on the beach. river tourism is one of the most important subdivisions of the nature tourism as a source for value added and special income for river cities. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to assess the impacts of river tourism on the life quality of citizens of Rasht. For this purpose, 200 questionnaires were distributed among citizens using random sampling method. Data was evaluated using SPSS software. The results showed that the quality of life of Rasht tourist city is moderate so that there is a significant correlation between the development of the tourism by creating new job opportunities and increasing the income of residents, as well as the prosperity of buying and selling real estate to 99%.