Survey of Rural Tourism status and its Role in Rural Development with Emphasis on Entrepreneurship(Case study: The villages of Amlash and Rudsar)

Nowadays tourism creates considerable subjects, economic, socio-cultural and biological advantages for rural and under-developed areas through income and infrastructural development, and on the other hand relying on its features and effects it can help in terms of movement and motion of various parts of rural economy in an effective way. Thus, the current study has been conducted with the aim of specifying the role of tourism in rural development and insisting on the impact of entrepreneurship on the villages of Amlash and Roudsar cities, so as to find the answer to this question that how rural tourism can provide the basis for the development of the rural areas? . Based on this perspective, the current study adopts descriptive approach and an analysis has been designed through gathering information to fill out a questionnaire in framework of Likert Spectrum, and the questions of the research has been provided through the SPSS and EXCEL statistical software. The statistical society of this study are 14 rural spots, among which 383 people out of the heads of rural families have been chosen as sample. The results indicate direct connection between tourism and rural development in eastern villages of Guilan province. There is also a correlation among income, creating job opportunities, cultural developments, enhancing social changes, raising environmental and biological pollutions and spatial modifications in the area of study through Sperimen correlation rate. On one side, the results of the study indicate that, the variable expressing the most variance of rural development is the economic factor.