Document Type : thesis
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Ph.D. Candidate of Agricultural Development, Department of Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
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Associate Professor Dept. of Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Iran
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Associate Professor, Department of Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
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Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract
Today, the concept of marketing and the philosophy of doing business is essential for all policy makers and implementers of rural development. Marketing in rural tourism should be a means to achieve the strategic development goals of rural tourism, Therefore, marketing is an important pillar to attract rural tourists; Therefore, there is a special need to know the obstacles and driving factors of this type of tourism. The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the driving and inhibiting factors of rural tourism marketing in Iran from the point of view experts, which was investigated using the qualitative content analysis method during two stages of open and secondary coding and determining the main concepts. During this stage, first, with the help of content analysis of sources and data from 20 semi-structured interviews with experts and experts in the country's tourism sector, 80 initial codes as driving factors in the form of 10 main factors and 76 initial codes as inhibiting factors in the form of 7 The main factor was identified. The resulting data were classified and coded in Excel software and the main concepts were obtained. Based on the results obtained, socio-cultural factors, transportation improvement, health accommodation services, management factors, communication-advertising factors, economic factors, natural-geographical factors, political-legal factors, physical (infrastructure)-body and food factors and restaurants as drivers of rural tourism marketing and the economic, natural-geographical, communication-advertising, managerial, political-legal, physical (infrastructure)-physical and social-cultural factors that inhibit rural tourism marketing were identified.
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