جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "اکوتوریسم" در نشریات گروه "علوم اجتماعی"

The present study seeks to identify the potentials of the development of ecotourism in the view of condition of local community. Urmia Lake is one the largest lakes in Iran which plays an important role in the socio-economic and environmental sectors in this region. However, due to the fact that the lake has shrunk substantially, it brought about national and international concerns.
The study with focus on qualitative methods employed semi-structured interviews in persons and groups and some observations. The study population consisted of all stakeholders concerning the revival of the lake and the potentials of the development of ecotourism in the area. Purposive sampling with snowballing method was used to find the informants. The techniques of SWOT, IEA, and QSPM were employed for strategic evaluations. Based on the results of external and internal factors, it was found that the most appropriate strategy for the development of ecotourism in the basin would be adaptive strategy. Among the identified strategies, the strategy of the formation of integrated management with the function of inter-province for the restoration of Urmia Lake was suggested as the most appropriate strategy for sustainable development of the ecotourism in basin.

Nowadays, a new trend to ecotourism has been attracted among the researchers as a spatial pattern for being in nature. The ecotourism is going to affect plenty of the geographical regions in the 21st century and to provide a new spatial pattern in various locations. Ecotourism can be considered as a sub-category of tourism industry with one of the rapidest economic growths. This growth has been even developed in the recent decade. The researchers believe that ecotourism is a proper tool to reach the stable tourism. The eco-tourist is the person who involves in mental and natural challenges by being in the nature. Eco-tourists are seeking the experience and are interested in treating with domestic people. They tolerate the problems of trips and show an active cooperation. The ecotourism activities lead to positive/negative effects in ecosystems, economics, cultural and social aspects. The tourism is more than an economic activity and it deals with a cultural relationship of the tourist and the host society. This research is done in order to analyze the gendered perceptions and imagines of young people about the ecotourism. The case study is the middle-school students of Myandorod and 275 persons are randomly selected using the Cochran’s formula. , there is not a correlation between the perceptions of the girls and boys about the social-cultural aspects of tourism.

Regarding gender unequality in many communites، empoverment of women has became a important subject and receive more regards in recent years. Results of many researches show that tourism specially ecoutourism effects women empowerment in its different aspects by attract their participation in tourism activities. Based on these findings of previous researches the aim of this study is assessing the role of ecotourism development on empoverment of rural women in descriptive survey. Women of Shib-Deraz in Qeshm Island are the population of the research whom participate in environmental plan of “conservation of Eretmochelys Embricate“with emphasize of ecotourism and handicrafts. A questionnaire was designed by using a theoretical basis. Results show that development of ecotourism can effects social، psychological and economical empowerment of rural women.