Rural Planning
Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh; alireza azhdar por; mohammad sharif sharif zadeh
Volume 23, Issue 67 , April 2019, , Pages 173-195
Abstract
This research aimed to identify factor influencing on immigration decision among rural people of Zabol County. Descriptive analytical research method based on questionnaire survey was used. The target population includes 26034 of rural households in Zabol County, and using Cochran formula 170 households ...
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This research aimed to identify factor influencing on immigration decision among rural people of Zabol County. Descriptive analytical research method based on questionnaire survey was used. The target population includes 26034 of rural households in Zabol County, and using Cochran formula 170 households selected as samples of this research. A questionnaire was used in order to collect data and its face and content validity was verified based on comments from faculty members and local experts and its reliability was confirmed according to calculate Cronbach's alpha for immigration tendency (0.75), urban attractions (0.83) and rural repulsion (0.91). The results of path analysis showed that variables “education” (with path coefficient 0.691) have most impact on final dependent variable immigration tendency. Variables such “income (-0.511)” “destination attraction (0.463)”, “origin repulsion (0.373)”, “land ownership (-0.363)”, “gender for men (0.308)”, “Job situation for employees (-0.274)”, “staying time (-0.240)” and “marriage situation for married person (0.1207)”, “local organization membership (-0.150)”, “immigration of family member (0.093)”, “age (-0.072) and “family member (-0.068) are in next rank.
malihe golzadeh; Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh; KARIM AMININIA; samad medadi
Abstract
Tourism is an important industry in almost every region of the planet. It touches the lives of most of the world’s population, employing numerous workers and contributing considerable percent of the global GDP. Tourism has long been identified as a powerful tool for development, spurring economic ...
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Tourism is an important industry in almost every region of the planet. It touches the lives of most of the world’s population, employing numerous workers and contributing considerable percent of the global GDP. Tourism has long been identified as a powerful tool for development, spurring economic growth, increasing foreign exchange, smallholder investment, and local employment. As increasing the importance of developing the tourism sector to facilitate the achievement of economic development, attention to different attractions of tourism such as sports tourism has increased in recent decades. Sport tourism as main part of tourism sector has attracted growing concern from in relation to multiple aspects, such as sustainable development and diversification of the national economy. To address these concerns, it is necessary to investigate planning for sport tourism development. It is widely acknowledged that planning is crucial to successful sport tourism development and management; and planning has been a widely adopted principle in sport tourism development at both regional and national. As such, experts suggest strategic planning can be considered in the planning process; and a strategic plan be practically made for this purpose. Current research aimed to investigate the role of role of infrastructures of Arasbaran area, East-Azerbaijan in the development of sports tourism and formulate appropriate strategies for improvement and greater use of the region''''s tourist attractions.
