Investigating the Social Consequences of Tourism Development in Second Houses (Case Study: Ziarat Village)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Zahra  Sharifinia ¹ (Assistant Professor, Dep. of Geography & Tourism Planning, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran)
Ali Reza  Estelaji ² (Professor, Dep. of Geography, Yadegar Emam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahreray, Iran)

Received: 2016-11-12 Accepted : 2017-06-21 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: Tourism, Second houses, Social Outcomes, Ziarat Village,

Abstract :

Growing and expanding tourism in today's fashion is one of the important phenomena of the late 20th century. Improving public transportation and the ownership of more private vehicles allowed people to buy second houses instead of healthy non-urban recreation and personal investment in property purchases. Ziarat Village is considered by the townspeople and tourists of the second houses due to the cool climate, unique landscape, beautiful forests, tourist destinations and low distance to Gorgan since the early 2000's. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between tourism of the second houses and its social consequences in the development of the village of Ziarat. The current research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey and correlation method. Library and field run methodology. The Statistic community of the study is residents of the village of Ziarat, and the sample size is 384 people. The results of the research showed that there is no relationship between increasing social interaction and social mobility preventing emigrants from villages and reviving indigenous knowledge of rural forgotten and developing tourism, in other indicators here is a relationship between the development of tourism in the second houses and its social consequences through village.

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