Investigating the perceptions and willingness of the local community to participate in the development of agricultural tourism (Case study: Torbat Heydariyeh city)

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1 Dep. Geography of Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad – Mashhad- Iran

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Abstract

Agricultural tourism as a complementary activity can have positive effects in villages with tourism capabilities, the most important is diversification of employment and i income. But assessing the willingness of the local community to accept tourists is the main purpose of this study. This research is of descriptive-analytical type which has been done by library and field method.Among the villages with a high capacity for agricultural tourism in the city, 424 heads of households were selected with the Cochran's formula and were interviewed.Friedman and Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric tests and Spearman correlation test were used to analyze the data due to abnormality.The results showed that although Agrotourism is economically profitable for them and the results of confirmatory factor analysis also showed that it has the greatest impact on the economic وdimension and explains 17.93% of the total variance, But from a social point of view, it explains the lower impact rate and 13.65% of the total variance, because the local community has little interest in the presence of tourists in the garden and private space of their lives and seeks more economic benefits of tourism than social interactions. Therefore, efforts should be made to make the villagers aware of the social benefits.

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Journal of Tourism Planning and Development
Volume 9, Issue 35
March 2021
Pages 135-161

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