Assessing rural tourism and role in the development of rural handicrafts in Kurdistan

ABSTRACT: Today, rural tourism and tourism economy, has become a key element of the business world. Besides the role of tourism in national development and diversification of the national and regional economy, handicrafts also areas a supplemental historical and tourist attraction. Aim of this study is to evaluate the status of rural tourism and its role in Development of rural handicrafts, that has been done in Kurdistan, province Marivan lake Zerivar (tee, katisatan, dartafeh, etc.), city sarvabad riverside villages Sirvan (Blbr, Asprzh, zhem, Noyyn etc.), villages of city of Sanandajdarehsoo margin (Glyn, etc.) and historical villages Kamyaran city. This study has conducted by survey methods and is among the appliedresearches. The estatical community of this study is tourists during the months of April, May and June in villages of city of Marivan, Sanandaj, sarvabad, Kamyaran and also rural artisans of all four cities. The four-city population of 200 rural artisans has been selected. And needed information was assemblage through interviews and questionnaires that were designed for (especially artisans). On the other hand, because of the subject of current research is focused on rural tourism and handicraft marketing, 210 samples were determined using the Cochran formula. Cronbachʹs alpha calculated for Handicrafts and Tourism respectively 0.81 and0.76, which means that the occasion was to examine the views of rural tourism and rural artisans. Results: The results of this study indicate that between the variable of incomes from sales of handicrafts, increasing the production quantity, satisfaction varied handicrafts, facilitating access to raw materials, handicrafts development, job creation exists a significant positive relationship.