A social work study to measure the impact of socio-economical factors of tourism industry

• Main Authors: Mohsen Pourkhosravani, Mohammad Reza Iravani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2012-04-01
• Series: Management Science Letters
• Subjects: Maymad; Tourism; Socio-economical factors; Low carbon industry; Middle East
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2011_139.pdf

Tourism plays an important role on development of economy especially in developing countries. The proposed study of this paper studies the impact of tourism on developing economic factors such as average income, real estate prices, etc. We have distributed 110 questionnaires among different people who are involved in various positions in the regions and analyzed the data. The survey is looking for the impact of tourism industry in terms of economical and social factors for one of the oldest villages in Iran named Maymand. The results indicate that there is a strong positive relationship, 0.873, between developing economy and tourism. In other word, developing tourism industry will help create more jobs, increase land prices, increase people's income and flourish environment. There is also a positive correlation, 0.854, between social development and tourism industry. This means we could expect a better health care system as well as medical treatment facilities, which helps prevent immigration to big cities.