Mechanisms of Rural Tourism with Emphasis on the Natural Tourism: A Case Study of Heidarabad Village, Ilam County of Iran

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    The main objective of this study was to investigate mechanisms of rural tourism
with emphasis on the natural tourism in the village of Heiderabad in Ilam county of Iran. It was an applied study in terms of the type and a quantitative
research in nature while in terms of the method of data collection, it was
considered as a survey. The population of this study consisted
of three groups of experts, rural households, and tourists. For selecting the sample,
in the the first group, the census method was used; and for the group of tourists,
100 people were selected in a convenience sampling method; as a whole, 250
people were studied. Main instrument of data gathering was a questionnaire, the
validity of which was confirmed by a panel of experts in Ilam University,
Islamic Azad University of Ilam Branch, and also experts in tourism. The
results of exploratory factor analysis showed that in natural dimension, infrastructural-cultural
mechanisms with %29.158 as well as welfare-services, informing and cultural-economic
mechanisms were the most important mechanisms of rural tourism development.    
 

 
  





    

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