The role of transportation in the development of rural tourism from the point of view of economic indicators in the post-corona period, Case Study: Hesar Valiasr County (Avaj Township, Qazvin province)

The outbreak of an epidemic disease such as Covid-19 and the adoption of strict policies such as general quarantine, travel restrictions and social distancing led to a significant decrease in international and even interprovincial travel, and rural areas due to their attractiveness Natural and cultural tourism as cheap tourist destinations for spending leisure time and recreation have attracted the attention of domestic tourists. Therefore, the present research has investigated the role of rural transportation in the development of rural tourism in terms of economic indicators. The geographical area of the research is the touristic villages of Hesar Valiasr County (Avaj Township, Qazvin province) in the time horizon of the summer of 1400. The current research is of the type of applied research and the descriptive-analytical method used is based on the questionnaire tool. The statistical population of the research was 8 touristic villages of Hesar Valiasr County in Avaj Township, which according to the population and housing census data (2015) has 358 permanent resident households, using the Cochran formula (p and q equal to 0.5), the number of 190 cases was selected as a sample. To analyze the questionnaire data, one-sample t-tests, Pearson's correlation and linear multivariate regression were used. The results showed that in the economic dimension, the indicators of the increase in the construction of second homes for tourism (3.99) and the increase in investment and capital formation (3.69) received the most positive impact from the development of rural transportation. Also, the results of multivariable linear regression showed that rural transportation has a significant and positive effect on the development of tourism in economic dimensions with a determination coefficient of 0.846. So that, according to the beta values of one unit of change in the standard deviation of independent variable indicators such as "increase in the construction of second homes for tourism", "diversity of employment and income opportunities", "improvement of access to services", "Improvement of tourism infrastructure in the village" and "Increase of investment and capital formation in the village" as a result of the development of rural transportation, are respectively 0.401, 0.291, 0.333, 0.360 and 0.008 units in the development of rural tourism. The opinion of the respondents has a positive effect.