Analysis of Socio-Economic and Physical Environmental Effects of Second Home Construction in Tourism Villages, Based on Host Community point of view (Case Study: Barase Village - Tonkabon Township)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

gharib Fazelniya ¹ , akbar kiani ² , mehdi ramezan zadeh ³ , elham afshar ⁴

1 - استادیار دانشگاه زابل، گروه جغرافیا، زابل، ایران
2 - استادیار دانشگاه زابل، گروه جغرافیا، زابل، ایران
3 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی روستایی،دانشگاه تهران،تهران، ایران
4 - دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه زابل، زابل، ایران

Received: 2011-02-14 Accepted : 2011-09-16 Published : 2011-08-23

Keywords: second home, Tourist Rural, Tonekabon, Host community,

Abstract :

Introduction   The second home is one of the reasons that tourists notice to villages. Also, those often built because of spending leisure time in rural areas. The second home phenomenon is growing in developing countries rapidly. Also, it is a respond to  rural crises that caused by change in agricultural methods. In addition, this phenomenon augmented by the climatic and geographic differences, Rural and urban migration, Environmental Pollution, Population and overcrowding in cities, improve of way communications, Increase the benefit of personal car. Over all, developing of such kind of tourism has social, economical and environmental consequences. Research Methodology   The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of second home on tourism rural structure of Baraseh village in Tonkabon Township. This study focused on economic, social and physical environment aspects. The descriptive analytic research method was based on documental library studies, documental resources, finding fields and questionnaire surveying.       Results   The results indicated that the host community satisfaction was less than average, in economic domain, social and physical-environment factors. In this study  accounted significant level of alpha 0.05 considered and it was equal to 0.000.this result  shows that there is significant agreement between answers. The most important positive outcomes were an increase in job opportunities, sale of local products, improvement in the quality of the services and village's streets and reconstruction of the old houses and reconstruction. The negative consequences are increasing of land and house price, Conversion agricultural gardens to home gardens , increasing  of the non-Native ownership of rural land and housing, destroying the rural landscape and the higher construction rate. Conclusion     Tourist attractions in potential regions provide an opportunity to develop rural areas, especially tourism villages, which provide people for relaxation and comfort on one hand and on the other hand have deep consequences for the towns themselves and brings opportunities as well as dangers for rural societies. Tourism and second home construction in Berse rural area is Spontaneous and it has no predetermined plan. In fact, it has negative and positive consequences.