Identification of tourist attraction obstacles in the tourism destination of Heydarabad Siwan

Abstract

In recent years, tourism and rural tourism have emerged as new ways of developing rural areas in order to meet the needs of villagers, preventing their free migration, employment and .... But there are obstacles in the rural areas that make the development of tourism difficult. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the tourist attractions of the tourist destination of Hyderabad Sivan, which has been carried out with a quantitative approach. In qualitative method, 15 officials and experts of tourism and rural development were selected by bullet sampling method and interviewed. After identifying the obstacles, a questionnaire was drawn from the interview results and was provided to the statistical sample in the quantitative section. In a small stage, 236 villagers were selected using Cochran formula, 100 tourists and 30 officials in a simple random sampling and distributed among them. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the formal and reliability of Cronbach's alpha of 0.996. Data analysis in the qualitative section was performed as a simultaneous analysis and recognition by the researcher, and in the quantitative part, one-sample t-test and Friedman test were used in the statistical software of SPSS. The results indicated that there were five administrative, social, cultural, welfare infrastructure, economic and financial infrastructures and physical-spatial infrastructures as obstacles to rural tourism in Hyderabad. Infrastructure factor - welfare with average rating (3.11) and socio-cultural factor with average rating (2.86) were identified as the most important and least important barriers, respectively.

Keywords

• tourism
• rural tourism
• barriers
• heydarabad village