Explain the Impact of Tourism on Rural Areas Case Study: The East District of Klardasht

Document Type : Research Paper

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Abstract

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Introduction
Tourism impacts on host communities along with complex dimensions of tourism development and every day needs to analyze and explaining these effects be felt more than ever. This study aimed to explore the effects of tourism development on the physical characteristics and analysis of their changes.
 
Materials and Methods
This study has been conducted by descriptive - analytical and exploratory field survey method. At first using observations and interviews to identify five early indicators of 'architecture, equipment, facilities, service, infrastructure, living spaces and environmental change' deals  and then action was taken with using the questionnaire (validity and reliability have been confirmed earlier stage) to collect field data between the two groups in the local population (N = 310) and local experts (N = 30) randomly.
 
Discussions and Results
The results obtained with SPSS software and Pearson correlation, single-sample t-test and linear regression analyzes were and at the end, the conclusion was that the development of tourism and changes in the spatial relationship between East GPS villages, there is a direct positive and tourism development led to positive and negative changes in different physical aspects have been studied villages.
 
Conclusions
In identifying the possible effects of tourism development indicators were identified, the local group, and the architectural style of the group of experts, indicators of environmental change in the maximum amount of explaining the situation.
 
Keywords: Rural Tourism, Impacts, Physical, District BirounbashmKelardasht