Studying Impacts of Tourism Development on Local Community: Case Study about the Chadegan City

Nowadays tourism has been recognized as a principal socioeconomic force in the world and considered as a powerful tool to benefit local communities. Because of this matter that a tourism destination at first stage is a place that people live in, so their awareness of decisions and planning about development of tourism and being affective abut it is really crucial. Construction of Zayanderud tourism village as the first tourism village at the central region of Iran in Chadegan city, the other recreational and residential complexes and the future vision of tourism development at this region duplicates the importance of this study. This study by the use of descriptive and survey method and face to face interviews with residents of the Chadegan, civil servants and tradespeople has addressed the impacts of tourism development at this city and on its people. In order to analysis the data from the questionnaires, the SPSS software is used and results show both positive and negative economical, sociocultural and environmental impacts at the studied region, lack of presence and influence of local community on planning and decision making process of tourism development and leakage of economic interests.