Assessment of tourism carrying capacity of the social dimension. (Case Study: Darakeh District)

Tourism as one of the important forms of human activity has important and significant effects in destination region, where tourists interacting with the environment, economy, culture and society of host community. If tourism is not managed, along with unpleasant consequences will that Not only does not help to develop regional, also created difficulties in the path of development. In order to tourism management should consider the various aspects that one of them is carrying capacity. The aim of this study is to evaluate the capacity of the social dimension of tourism DARAKE to identify its social effects, so as neighborhood resources conservation and protection and proper use of it are provided. Research Method is based on Documentary, survey and descriptive - analytical, by using questionnaires and interviews that the population consisted of 50% business owners and 50% of residents. Simple Random sampling method is used for local community sampling. The sample size is 382 of 6355 people in the local community that by Using Cochran's formula, the sample size is 362 people. Information and data collected through the questionnaire is analyzed using SPSS software. Result show that the host community is not pleased with the presence of tourists and the Dusky index, tourism is near saturation in DARAKE and host community is Ambivalence and suspicion. But this situation is slightly different, for people who somehow make money from the tourists, So much Given the indifference of these people in Dusky index and Inattention to the Visitors and their relationships are more formal mode.