Investigating the Impacts of River Tourism on the Quality of Life of Citizens (Case study: Gohar rood River of Rasht City, Iran)

Journal of Tourism Hospitality Research

مقاله 4، دوره 6، شماره 2، خرداد 2019، صفحه 69-80   

نوع مقاله: Original Article

نویسندگان

Hossein Mousazade^{* 1}؛ Farahnaz Akbarzadeh²؛ Hassan Mousazadeh³

¹Ph. D. student, Dept. of Regional Science, Eotvos Lorand University, Faculty of science, Budapest, Hungary

²M.A. of Clinical Psychology, Lahijan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lahijan, Iran

³M.A. of General Psychology, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran

چکیده

The development of river tourism depends on river quality, physical characteristics and river landscape, river marginal landscape, safety and financial safety of tourists, creating roads and facilitating tourists to spend leisure time and providing opportunities for walking on the beach. river tourism is one of the most important subdivisions of the nature tourism as a source for value added and special income for river cities. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to assess the impacts of river tourism on the life quality of citizens of Rasht. For this purpose, 200 questionnaires were distributed among citizens using random sampling method. Data was evaluated using SPSS software. The results showed that the quality of life of Rasht tourist city is moderate so that there is a significant correlation between the development of the tourism by creating new job opportunities and increasing the income of residents, as well as the prosperity of buying and selling real estate to 99%.

کلیدواژه‌ها

River Tourism؛ quality of life؛ Citizens؛ Gohar rood River؛ Rasht City

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