Document Type : Research Paper
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1 Department of Landscape Engineering Agricultural Faculty University of Tabriz
2 Department of landscape architecture
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Abstract
Tourism is one of the most important industries in the world, and one of its dimensions is rural tourism. Nowadays, tourists are more looking for natural and traditional spaces to get rid of crowded urban environments and also for new experiences. The objective in this work is to evaluate the influencing features of the rural landscape on the development of tourism and its validation in Chubin village of Neyshabur township.
In this research, the method of library documents and the review of specialized literature related to the subject, the orientation of the effective indicators of desirable rural landscapes have been used, and in the next step, the elements and indicators have been evaluated using the process of field observation. And finally, according to the effective and main indicators, a questionnaire was designed. The validity of the questionnaire was checked by experts and its total reliability was estimated at 0.817 based on Cronbach's alpha. The sample size was calculated based on Mitra Lankford's formula and distributed among 300 visitors from Chubin village. Data analysis was done using spss software and Spearman's correlation tests and multiple linear regression.
First, the results showed the effective indicators on rural landscapes with the approach of tourism development. Also, the results showed that there is a significant relationship between rural landscape indicators and tourism development indicators. In addition, the ecological index has the greatest impact on the development of tourism in Chobin village, and visiting tourists considered the criteria related to the ecological index to be the most effective factor for attracting to this area.
Therefore, to realize the development of tourism in villages,understanding of the components of desirable rural landscapes in the design of rural landscapes as well as designing according to the expectations of tourists can improve the fields of tourism development.
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