One of the most favorable development options in society's programs and policies is tourism development. The most important part of sustainable tourism development is promoting community participation on reliability, norms through members in it: social capital on human resource. In this regard, social capital is one of the most important variables that support community participation in many ac...

in spain, camping accommodation accounted for 6.32% of total tourism accommodation and 8.2% of overnight stays in 2007. there were 1,152 registered campsites which provided lodging for almost 6.4 million users. although these figures are higher than those of rural accommodation, few studies have analyzed the main attributes of this sector and their contribution to the development of spanish tou...

purpose: this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding about strategies and guidelines of rural tourism planning and management in iran, then with the help of experts and their participation identify and classify the different perspectives in iran rural tourism to finally putting forward a step beyond the current impressions and perceptions. methodology: in the past few decades, rura...

purpose: this study investigats the role of tourism second homes in rural economy diversification and improvement of creating jobs and income opportunities of permanent residents in the hesar-e- valiasr dehestan. methodology: this research is applied and the method is analytical– descriptive. data collected by the use of field studies, from a total number of 358 permanent households in sample s...

ecotourism has a close relationship with environment, so a deserving evaluation of environmental potentials can lead to improvement of plans and prevention of failure in tourism development, and avoids unexpected damages to environment. this study tries to investigate and evaluate the environmental potential of khansar in order to develop tourism in this area. khansar has many different capabil...

This study presents a discussion of the community participation construct, within a rural tourism perspective. The study also reviews the methodological characteristics of community participation’s theory and measurement and its association to rural tourism environment. The extant literature is revisited to establish taxonomy of the methodological procedures for measuring community participatio...