TY - JOUR ID - 169069 TI - Agritourism: A Strategy in the Tourism Sustainable Development of Rural Communities (Case Study: Dulab Village, Kurdistan, Iran) JO - Sustainable Rural Development JA - JSRD LA - en SN - 2538-3876 AU - Soleimani, Sara AU - Momeni, Sara AD - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Art and Architecture, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran AD - Master of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Faculty of art and architecture, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 225 EP - 236 KW - Agritourism KW - Rural development KW - Dulab Village KW - Kurdistan KW - Northeast of Iran DO - N2 - Purpose: Several studies have shown that different forms of rural tourism can have positive and negative economic, social, and environmental effects on the region they occur in. This study aimed to evaluate the economic, social, and ecological effects of agritourism on the development of rural areas. Dulab village in Iran was selected as one of the tourism target villages.Methods: First, the local community’s economic, social, and environmental needs (n=97) were extracted from the heads of households qualitatively. Then, agritourism was introduced to the local community as a development plan, and tourism’s positive and negative effects were assessed by factor analysis.Results: According to the present study, most villagers had economic incentives, including job creation, income increase, poverty reduction, creating complementary jobs, selling products without intermediaries, the welfare of the local community, and Empowering rural women to accept tourism and tourism development.Conclusion: According to the results, since agriculture was the main source of income and occupation of rural people, agritourism was identified as a solution for sustainable development in rural communities, emphasizing the necessity of local community participation. UR - https://www.jsrd.ir/article_169069.html L1 - https://www.jsrd.ir/article_169069_899b86dc04b884d34947021bf2154273.pdf ER -