Evaluation of Rural Tourism Destinations Sustainability from the Perspective of Local Communities.

Nowadays, rural tourism is one of the important aspects of economic, social, cultural and environmental activities of human community that have a so many positive and negative effects on human's life and is appreciable based on effects on accessing to sustainable development. Thus, the purpose of this study is, measuring the sustainable development level in tourism destination rural of Darb Gonbad rural district (Koohdasht province) from the local community attitude. This practical study is based on descriptive- annalistic methodology and had been used of document and field study method through of questionnaires for data gathering. The statistical approach (sample T-test, regression and path analyze) had been used for analyzing the collected data. Sample community of this survey calculated 3751people in the villages that with 0.05 errors, 154 questioners had been designed and randomly filled by sample community. The results of study explain that the changes become meaningful and become up than moderate level. Also, there is the positive relation between all of aspect (economic, social, cultural, environmental and physical) so the statistical tests result show that in totally, economic effects are most effective and environmental effects are less effective aspect in rural destinations sustainable development. In final, for ranking the rural sustainability had been used of VICOR technique that based that, Darb Gonbad village with 0.11 lay in best position and Baghleh Sofla village with 0.87 laid in worse condition of sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]