Definition of the effects of tourism on rural sustainability Case Study : Shemshak Village , Tehran State

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

H. Lotfi ¹ , A. moradi ² , E. khalifeh ³ , Z. Haghigimotlagh ⁴

1 - Assistant Prof. Dep of Geography, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran
2 - PhD. Candidate, Geography & Rural Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 - PhD. in Geography & Rural Planning, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
4 - M.A. student, Geography & Rural Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2015-12-16 Accepted : 2017-02-21 Published : 2017-03-13

Keywords: Tourism, Sustainability, rural settlement, settlemental unsustainability, Shemshak Village,

Abstract :

Today with increasingly proccess of population growth and development of poverty in local communities , attention to rural tourism has been mentioned as a source to increase of income and creating of financial welfare , and thus governmental and private policies and investments has provided structural- functional changes of these rural spaces that has caused to settlemental sustainability / unsustainability . This article attempts to reply to this problem how rural tourism developing as an economical-cultural activity has caused to settlemential sustainability / unsustainability during (1375 – 1390) . Method of resaerch is ( descriptive – analytical ) , and needed data and information also have been gathered in ways of ( field work and librariy) , statistical softwares ( Excel and Spss ) have been useded to analys the data and also to draw the maps , Arc Gis has been utilized . Population include of 362 household that through cochran formol 20 has been selected as a sample , and 20 persons of tourists also has been selected . Tourism by accelerating of enviornmental problems and also creating of dualism and contrast in physical texture of the village (case study ) has caused to enviornmental – ecological and physical unsustainability ; but about social- cultural and economical, tourism has caused to social- cultural and economical sustainability , by increasing of income , decreasing of rural – urban migrations and in conclusion , by heighten of trend to insolubility in rural settlement .

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