The Role of Environmental Awareness and Trainings in Protecting Iindigenous Tourist Attractions with an Emphasis on Telegram Social Network: Case Study of Ilam County

Due to the rapid tendency of people towards communication networks, integrating e-learning and Due to the rapid tendency of people towards communication networks, integrating e-learning and environmental education might be the only solution that actively engages young generations and other groups of society in the process of environmental learning and training. Therefore, it is possible to take advantage of this opportunity to increase the theoretical knowledge, empirical and practical awareness of the public towards changeing people attitudes. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of environmental awareness and training in protecting indigenous tourist attractions with an emphasis on Telegram cyberspace in the second half of the year 2016. This research is correlative-descriptive and the required data was gathered through a questionnaire. The validity was confirmed by experts’ opinion and by Confirmatory Factor Analysis and the reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha, turning out to be 0.92. The statistical population included the residents of Ilam County, of whom 383 people were selected by Cochran’s formula and a fixed sampling method. Data analysis was performed using structural equation method in LISREL software. The findings revealed that environmental awareness and training in Telegram has a meaningful positive effect on protecting indigenous tourist attractions by the residents of Ilam County. Moreover, environmental awareness and training in Telegram showed a meaningful positive effect on virtual educations for the protection of tourist attractions, on the effectiveness of the environmental education in protection of tourist attractions, and also on achieving the goals of environmental education for protection of tourist attractions by the residents of Ilam County.