To Evaluate the Effects of Sport Tourism on Rural Life Quality from the Viewpoint of Local Society (Case Study: Aasara District, Nesa Rural District)

This research was conducted to evaluate the effects of sport tourism on the quality of rural life; research method was descriptive-analysis and data collection was done through questionnaires. Population was all local people living in the villages of the district under study. This research studied the effect of sport tourism on different dimensions of life quality based on economic, social, cultural and environmental indicators. For hypotheses testing t-test and ANOVA was done through SPSS and the plan was provided using GIS software. Findings of this research indicated that the villages under study had different mean values with regard to the impacts of their sport tourism on the indicators of life quality. Moreover, the findings showed that sport tourism had a significant impact on the quality of economic, environmental and sociocultural indicators but it had no significant impact on infrastructure’s.