Tourists’ Attitudes Toward Tourism Service Delivery in Kandovan Village, Iran
S. Mehdi Mirdamadi1, Leila Gholamzadeh2, Shahab Alddin Shokri3
1S. Mehdi Mirdamadi, Department of Agricultural Development, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2Leila Gholamzadeh, Department of Rural Development, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3Shahab Alddin Shokri, Department of Agricultural Economics, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran
Manuscript Received on December 22, 2014. | Revised Manuscript Received on December 28, 2014. | Manuscript published on January 15, 2015. | PP: 1-5 | Volume-1 Issue-4, January 2015.
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Abstract: This paper reviews a kind of service delivery as an important element in developing rural tourism in Knadovan village. The research population was consisted of 424 tourists were selected using Morgan sampling table and were interviewed by haphazard sampling method. Validity of the research instrument was confirmed by the research group and α Chronbach coefficient was applied for the purpose of reliability through which α=0.78 was obtained. Results of the study revealed that service delivery at all, had no a passable status from the viewpoint of respondents. In the next stage, any kinds of services were compared and ranked by nonparametric statistical tests of Freidman and Wilcoxon signed ranks.
Keywords: Rural Tourism, Kandovan, Tourism Service, Tourist.