On the Identification and Analysis of Social Security in the Target Tourism Villages (Case Study: Isfahan Province)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Masood Safari Ali Akbari ¹ , Karam Ahmadianfard ² , Hojatollah Sadeghi ³ , Somayeh Gholamyan Hosseinabadi ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Geography & Rural Planning, Payame Noor University, Iran
2 - M.A. Student in Criminal Law and Criminology, Dorud Branch Islamic Azad University, Dorud, Iran
3 - PhD in Geography & rural planning, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
4 - M.A. Student in Criminal Law and Criminology, Tiran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tiran, Iran

Received: 2017-04-20 Accepted : 2017-07-22 Published : 2018-08-23

Keywords: Social Security, Isfahan Province, Tourism Village,

Abstract :

In terms of realization of sustainable tourism, substrates required that social security is the most important indices of them. Social security index causes attracting tourist and sustainability of this matter in rural villages. So, this index should greatly be established in the rural community and its necessary framework should be provide. In this research, the purpose is to identify and analyze the social security in the of tourism target villages in the Isfahan province in order to help to development of tourism by identifying the present status. The research method was descriptive-analytic based on a survey study by questionnaire. The population of this research are tourists entered the village. That due to the lack of accurate statistics in terms of the population under the study and due to limitations in terms of questioning, the number of 250 tourists were determined for the questioning. The results of the test showed that five variables including personal security, financial security, physical perimeter security, moral security and police security with the significance level 0.000 in good condition, three variables communications-transport security, health security, interaction and communication variable with significantly higher levels than 0.05 in the middle condition and two variables institutional-political security and mental-intellectual security of  tourists with a significance level less than 0.05 are in poor condition. Model review shows that social security in the tourism development is effective with amount of total effect 0.688. In total, social security explain about 45 percent of the tourism variance in target villages in Isfahan province.

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