Investigating Mechanism of Rural Tourism with emphasis on the Natural tourism (A Case Study: Heidarabad village, Ilam province)

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

Mohammad Bagher Arayesh ¹ , Mohammad Sadegh Sabouri ²

1 - Assistant Professor of Agricultural Extension and Education, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran
2 - Associate Professor of Agricultural Extension and Education, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran

Received: 2017-12-25 Accepted : 2017-12-25 Published : 2015-03-01

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The Main Objective of the Present Study was to Investigate Mechanism of Rural Tourism with emphasis on the Natural tourismin the village of Hyderabad in ilam County.The Present research was applied type based on the goal, in terms of the Nature it was quantity research and in terms of the method of Collecting data was a Survey research. The Population of this study Consisted of three groups of expert(N=40), Rural housholds (N=110) and Touirists. For Selecting Sample, in the Case of the first groups the Census method eas used and for Tourists Population by using Simple Random Sampling method 100 people were Selected and altogrther 250 People were Studied. Main Instrument of gathering data was questionnaire that its Validity was Confirmed by Experts Panel of ilam universiry and Islamic azad University of ilam branch and Expets of Tourism. Cronbach alpha Coefficient was used to determine questionnaire reliability and its value was equal to ./96. For dara analysis, descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation was used. For analytical statistics, factor analysis was used. The Resuls of Factor analysis Showed that in Natural Dimention, Infrastructural- Cultural mechanisms with the percentage of (25/55) was the most important mechanism of Rural Tourism Development.

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