Rural Planning
eslam beshkar; javad bazr afshan; mehrshad toulabi nejad
Volume 23, Issue 69 , December 2019, , Pages 41-64
Abstract
Local community support in tourism development is an important factor for community-based management and tourism marketing; and play a crucial role in developing tourism and, therefore, households’ livelihoods. The aim of this study is to evaluate the local community supporting of coastal tourism ...
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Local community support in tourism development is an important factor for community-based management and tourism marketing; and play a crucial role in developing tourism and, therefore, households’ livelihoods. The aim of this study is to evaluate the local community supporting of coastal tourism and its impact on sustainable livelihoods of border villages. This article, from objective point of view is functional type and its method is combined-like (qualitative and quantitative). A questionnaire is the data collection tool which is used. The statistical population consists of village households on coastal border areas of chabahar county (N=3441). 345 households was chosen by Cochran formula and by means of simple random sampling. To analyze the data, first we assessed amount of local peoples’ supporting of tourism, in the next step, to investigate the effects of each aspects of local communities supporting for tourism development we used path analysis, and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) to investigate linear relation between tourism development and sustainable livelihoods, and to evaluate the effects of tourism development on sustainable livelihoods, Cramer's V correlation coefficient was used. The findings showed the perceived benefits of tourism and the sense of place belonging are so important factors which affect the level of supporting of tourism development. Reviewing the findings of relationship between tourism development and sustainable livelihoods show that there is a statistically significant relationship between these two variances; and the greatest impact of tourism development is related to economic sustainability and the least impact of it is related to social sustainability. Therefore, it can be said that with counting local residents’ views and make them participate in decision-making and tourist management can develop tourism and this consequently leads to sustainable livelihoods of rural households.
Rural Planning
mehrshad toulabi nejad; sirous ghanbari; mohsen shayan
Volume 22, Issue 66 , January 2019, , Pages 163-185
Abstract
Social capital is a key factor in the sustainable development of rural sustainable development and the social dimension of sustainable development in different regions, regardless of social capital and social and economic welfare of rural households is not possible. In this article using the study questionnaire ...
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Social capital is a key factor in the sustainable development of rural sustainable development and the social dimension of sustainable development in different regions, regardless of social capital and social and economic welfare of rural households is not possible. In this article using the study questionnaire on the role of social capital on economic and social welfare of rural households in rural in Eastern Miyankoh has been investigated. In this study, the lack of population (514 households), 103 households using the Cochran formula (12 villages) were selected as sample.The results of the analysis based on data Analysis of the correlation coefficient, Mauritius shows the relationship between social capital and welfare households in the study area quite significant and social participation index greatest impact on the social and economic welfare of households in the district had studied.
