Western Capacities of Mazandaran Province for Sustainable Development of Agri- tourism

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph .D student in Rural Development, College of Agriculture, Razi University. Kermanshah, Iran.

2 Associated professor, Department Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

10.22080/jtpd.2022.22191.3600

Abstract

This mixed Research aimed to identify the attractions associated with the sustainable development of Agri- tourism m in the west of Mazandaran Province.The population of the qualitative sector were experts in the field of agricultural tourism in various organizations who were purposefully selected and data was collected through semi structured interviews with 20 of them Based on the two stages of open and axial coding of the basic theory, 87 indicators were extracted using Maxqdawin12 software. The statistical population of the quantitative section was 69 rural villagers in the west of Mazandaran province who were selected by multi-stage method. In order to analyze the quantitative data, mean, standard deviation, Friedman rank tests, Analysis of variance ANOVA and Tukey test software.
The results showed that natural landscapes are in the first place, manmade landscapes are in the second place. But infrastructure is the last resort in terms of opportunities. The results of F test and Tukey post hoc showed that there is a significant difference between the three cities of Tonekabon, Chalous and Ramsar in terms of opportunities for interconnected Agri- tourism at the error level of 0.01 and different cities in terms of opportunities and attractions differ from each other.

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