The Sociological Analysis of Socio-cultural Impacts of Tourism on Regional Development

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the socio-cultural impacts of tourism on regional development. The statistical population in this study is Rasht citizens which 200 of them selected using simple random sampling technique and Cochran’s formula. The findings show that quality of life, public participation increase, lifestyle and cultural integration among the most effective socio-cultural factors of tourism on regional development. As the regression modeling confirmed, cultural integration with 0.46, lifestyle with 0.14, increasing the participation of local people with 0.52 and quality of life with 0.86 are among the most important socio-cultural impacts of tourism on regional development.