Development Strategies for Rural Tourism in Mishkhas Village

International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development

مقاله 2، دوره 6، شماره 3، آذر 2016، صفحه 257-264   

نوع مقاله: Research Article

نویسندگان

Roya Eshraghi Samani^{* 1}؛ Shima Malekshahi²؛ Alireza Poursaeed³

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Management, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran

²MA Student, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran

³Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran

چکیده

Rural tourism is a factor in multidirectional development of rural areas and its most important consequences are population stability, unemployment problem alleviation, and immigration reduction. The present survey was set to investigate the strategies of developing rural tourism in Mishkhas Village in Ilam Province using the SWOT technique. A questionnaire was used as the data gathering instrument and the sample size was determined to be 368 based on the Krejcie and Morgan table. The Cronbach alpha coefficient was used to show the reliability of research instrument which came out to be 0.87. In this research, the internal (strengths and weaknesses) and external factors (threats and opportunities) of the region were ranked by the SWOT technique. It was indicated that the amount of advantages with the obtained value of 5.87 (strengths and opportunities) was higher than limitations rate of weaknesses and threats (4.531). Thus, according to the results, the strategy of developing rural tourism was applied in this region. 

کلیدواژه‌ها

Rural tourism؛ Rural Development؛ SWOT

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