This study presents a discussion of the community participation construct, within a rural tourism perspective. The study also reviews the methodological characteristics of community participation’s theory and measurement and its association to rural tourism environment. The extant literature is revisited to establish taxonomy of the methodological procedures for measuring community participatio...

Sürdürülebilir kırsal kalkınma anlayışında temel amaç, bölgenin kapasitesinin ve dolayısıyla iş gücü istihdamının artırılarak yoksulluk ile mücadele edilmesidir. Böylece yaşam kalitesi iyileştirilerek bölge insanının yeterli gelire sahip olması refah düzeyinin tutunmanın sağlanması hedeflenir. Mut ilçesi fiziksel olmayan problemler nedeniyle yaşamın az olduğu yerler arasında yer almaktadır. Bu ...

The rural revitalization strategy is one of the important strategies proposed by Chinese government, aiming to promote economic development and improve farmers' living standards. And tourism, as an part strategy, can not only but also local cultural inheritance ecological protection. Among them, tourism landscape planning its teaching getting more attention. This paper introduces background sig...

entrepreneurship is very important in order to creating jobs for the unemployed and educated youth. as regards educated youth have fewer tendencies to self-employment and investment in this context. therefore this study was performed with the objective investigating personality skills of entrepreneurial of rural youth and suggest solutions for strengthen these skills in gonbad-e-kavous county. ...

The research proposes to model the way households and their assets move back and forth between the informal rural economy and the formal economy, particularly financial equity, entrepreneurs and workers. Several hypotheses are tested to establish understanding about the functions of the informal economy in the co-evolution of rural and urban economies. This work should lead to strategic options...

CONTEXT Very little is known about medical students from rural areas currently enrolled in Canadian medical schools. PURPOSE We aimed to compare rural and non-rural students in terms of demographics, socioeconomic status, financial status and career choices. METHODS As part of a larger Internet survey of all students at Canadian medical schools outside Quebec, conducted in January and Febru...

Improvements in wireless technologies and increased uptake of advanced mobile handsets have led to a growing trend in mobile banking activities on a global scale. However, little is known about the potential of mobile banking for rural areas in developed countries. Prior research suggests some difficulties faced by rural areas in accessing ICT services such as high speed Broadband and Mobile In...

one of the guidelines of development that in first decode after islamic iran revolution, to accessing to development is rural area, prepared and implemented, is physical planning projects that as the most important official document and legal of the development of one village in our country is considered and has a place like place of urban collector and physical planning projects for village. b...

nowadays, women's participation in rural sustainable development is not considered as an optional issue, but a necessity. the societies downgrading the need for women's participation have faced failures, cuausing delay in sustainable development and the meeting of social security as well as social welfare. this applied research was aimed at clarifying the role of rural women's pa...