نوع مقاله : علمی-پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Nowadays, tourism is the biggest and most versatile industry all over the world. With 200 million practitioners (about 8% of total global employment), rural tourism is one of the tourism industries clusters that emphasis natural, historical and cultural and religious attraction of the rural and can have an important impact on the rural revitalizing, employment and income and natural, historic and religious heritage protection. Rural tourism in Maragheh could have these impacts and have rich potentials of natural, historic, cultural and religious attraction. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the economic potential and valuable activities of rural tourism in Maragheh.This research is applied and its method is descriptive – analytical that involved 12000 statistical populations. Type of this present study is applied and it uses survey methods on the basis of descriptive – analytic and documentation methods that samples bulk and its statistical populations are based on Cochran, 384 persons, and with probabilistic sampling selected from proportional ranking with simple random. Through cvm and EP models, it was determined that Maragheh city has tourist attractions in rural areas, which in case of proper investment and planning for the well-being of tourists, will not only increase the number of tourists, but also reduce the amount of damages. It will also reduce the environmental problems. EP model results with estimate 1.38%, shows that villages in Maragheh have natural, historic, religious and cultural potentials. Also, the results of the CVM model show that 87.7% accepted that they pay for these utilities so that economic values of Chekan, Taze – kand sofla and Alavian were estimated as 19500000, 6937560, and 14306400 respectively. These values are used for employment and development in this region. Finally, we proposed some suggestion for rural tourism developments in Maragheh.
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