Anthropology of Rural Tourism (Case of Study:Masoule Village)

Demand and willingness for travelling is rapidly increasing as trading, hobby and leisure....in the world. Increasing personal income, leisure times and changing attitude cause to develop tourism. Therefore tourism change to the social fact mean while rural tourism is the most important type of it. Today most of the countries received their per-capita income of rural tourism. Iran has a potential to become a pioneer country in tourism industry because of hospitality and kindness of the people in Iran. In this paper, Masoule village with unique architecture and attractive culture has been chosen in order to understand the effects of tourism from anthropological point of view. The data presented in this paper, have been collected through informal interviews, empirical observations.