The effects of tourism development on quality of life aspects in Chabahar

Today, the quality of urban life is the key concept in urban planning. Thus, in many developed countries, planners are trying to show quality of life at different geographical levels so that they can find optimal solutions to improve the quality of life. In this regard, tourism is considered as an activity that leads to many changes in the quality of life of the communities. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of tourism development on quality of life aspects of Chabahar. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical. The population of the study consisted of all citizens of Chabahar city based on the general housing census of 1395, 106739 persons, using the Cochran formula, 384 persons were selected as the sample size. The research data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the opinions of professors and experts. Cronbach's alpha was also used to obtain its reliability. The obtained Cronbach's alpha indicates that the questionnaire has validity for measuring the research variables and is a desirable number. One sample ttest, multivariate regression analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient were used to analyze the findings. The results of one-sample t-test showed that the status of economic index (3.155), physical-physical (3.102), personal health and well-being (3.173), education and culture (3.221) and recreation and entertainment (3.276) were rated above the optimal mean (3) and only the environmental index (2.2903) was lower than the optimal condition. Results of regression analysis showed that tourism development had the highest effect on environmental quality of life index with beta value of 0.999 and the least effect on education and culture index with beta value of 0.08. Also the effect on economic index (0.228), physicalphysical (0.143), personal health (0.103), and recreation (0.188).