Study about the effects of rural tourism on quality of life Case study: Village Creek-Dena City

Today, tourism is one of the most precursor growing activities in any country and one of the most attractive and the newest one is rural tourism that has various effects on the host society. So this research is done to study the effects of rural tourism on quality of life. This research is functional in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in nature. The statistical society includes 261 rural family of Creek village that was selected as the sample size. The method of collecting required data was libraries (taking notes) and survey (questionnaire and interview). To analyze the used variables in research the Kolmogorov-smirnov, One sample T test and Independent samples t-test was used. Results shows between 9 reviewed index that are related in cultural-social, economic, infrastructure-physical, and environmental indicators of quality of life, the quality of health and hygiene, the quality of interaction and social correlation and the quality of residential environment indicators are at the intermediate level of rural residents satisfaction and in return the quality of individual and social security, the quality of leisure, the quality of education, the quality of economic, the quality of infrastructure and the quality of environmental are lower than the intermediate level. Overall the rural tourism has failed to improve the quality of life in the Creek village