Analyzing the impact of tourism development on reducing poverty in rural border areas

 border areas are of special importance at the national and cross-border levels and have the capacity and challenges to attract tourism. However, today these areas are always considered deprived areas of the country due to the lack of facilities and lack of proper investments. The current research is investigating the impact of tourism development on poverty reduction in rural border areas (case study: Parsabad city of Moghan).

 This research is descriptive-analytical in nature and practical in purpose. To collect data, library and field methods including observation-questionnaire have been used. The statistical population of this research is in the city of Parsabad, which according to Cochran's formula is 352 people from among the residents and the cultural heritage organization of industries and tourism of the border areas, as the sample size, and the questionnaires have been completed using the systematic sampling method.

 The findings of the research are obtained from spss data, which uses descriptive statistics methods as well as in the inferential part of proving the hypotheses in two groups before and after the binomial test. This is the basis of tourism development in border areas in all dimensions (except economic, social cultural, environmental and physical dimensions) at a significance level of less than 0.005, with a confidence level of 95%

 The research results show that The lowness of the average values (groups) obtained from the effects of the economic dimension on the development of tourism, which the items due to the development of tourism, the difference in the significance level of the numerical desirability, are also negatively evaluated and estimated. And it can be a source of income for the border areas and the country and reduce the poverty and unemployment of the people.