assessment of rural tourism in the social empowerment of the Ziarat village's residents from Bavanat city in the province of Farce

According to experts، achieve sustainable development without the participation of all residents in rural areas is impossible. Nevertheless، various social and cultural factors prevent the participation of villagers in the area of social. At this time، social empowerment of rural citizens، through the development of tourism in the region، could be considered as the basic element in the improvement of interactions and social communication residents. The purpose of this research is the study of rural tourism in the social empowerment of the Ziarat village’s residents from Bavanat city in the province of functions. The nature of this research is practical and it’s doing method is analytic-descriptive and from survey type. Residents of Deh Ziarat village (as the village with tourism activities) and the d of Chenarouyeh (as the village without tourism activities) from the population of this survey. Static sample of this survey is designated through Cochran formula and for 300 persons (150 persons from Deh Ziarat and 15 persons from Chenarouyeh village. Needed data preparation is based on field method and data collection has performed by questionnaires. Analysis of data collected has done through software packages of SpSS. The results of these surveys shows that tourism has an important role from social point in the empowerment of residents of Deh Ziarat village. As the result of the independent T-Test between both groups shows that there is significant difference in solidarity and social cohesion، knowledge and social skills، social extroversion، social association and in social interaction between both villages. And just there is no differences in social responsibility and local dependency between two villages. Also، results of multiple regression analysis showed that that there is significant relation between social association and social confidence (as independent factors) and other social empowerment factors (as dependent factors)