E-TOURISM AND ITS ROLE IN SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT WITH RURAL ICT

Utilizing new information and communication technologies has recently made evolving life inevitable. An important aspect of these technologies is evolving tourism and new form of cultural inherits attraction and introduction of rural virtual tourism. E-Tourism is electronic version of tourism that makes it possible to open new horizons and capabilities to rural tourism. Since, rural tourism is a prerequisite for development of tourism industry, e-tourism which is considered as revolution of tourism, is the origin of potential economic and cultural movement and development. Hence, rural e-tourism with its own potentials has important role in sustainable development. In this paper, we aim to investigate various aspects of electronic tourism and explain its role in sustainable rural development. The paper is based on library study, investigating scientific documents, extensible searches in Internet and also information databases.