Rural tourism as a strategy to achievement rural development؛ (Case study: poverty in villages of mishkhas, sivan section of ilam)

The present paper deals with the rural tourism as a strategy to achievement rural development.The study assumes that rural tourism can have a positive impact on reducing poverty and rural development.This study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical. Documentary and field methods (researcher-made questionnaire, observation and interview) were used for data collection.The statistical population of the study consists of the supervisors of eight tourism villages of Mishkhas village and has the largest volume of tourists, numbering 1638 households.Sample Size Using the HTML Table. The estimated 325 people were enrolled in the study.The sampling method was multi-stage stratified.In this way,the whole of Mishkhas (8 villages) were identified and the population proportion of each village was sampled by simple random sampling. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyze the collected . Investigation from the perspective of research participants showed that the coefficient of determination is 0.799. Therefore, it can be said that tourism development has played an important role in reducing poverty and rural development. The results of the path analysis showAll the aspects of rural tourism under study have direct effects on rural poverty.The highest direct effect belonged to the economic dimension (0.28) and the lowest to the physical dimension (0.11).