@Article{pakinsight,
AUTHOR = {},
TITLE = {The Role of Handicrafts in the Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism with an Emphasis on Indigenous Knowledge},
JOURNAL = {International Journal of Geography and Geology},
VOLUME = {6},
YEAR = {2017},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {1-7},
URL = {http://www.pakinsight.com/archive/10/01-2017/1},
ISSN = {2305-7041},
ABSTRACT = {Tourist is a process that had been existed a long period of time with 
different forms in human societies and   has gradually solved its 
historical and evolutionary processes. As the tourism has influenced in 
the economic, social and cultural countries that economists have called 
it as an invisible export. On the other hand, rural tourism is one of 
the most important subgroups of the development of tourism in each 
region that nowadays is considered one of the most popular forms of 
tourism and in the form of tourist activity takes place in the village. 
Descriptive and analytic study based on library studies and documents. 
At first, we evaluated the quality and importance of Indigenous 
knowledge and sustainable development with the approach of tourism and 
with regard to conceptual framework and fundamental issues related to 
rural handicrafts and tourism. Then, findings from the study In relation
 to effects of Socio - economic Handicrafts tourism development in Iran 
were extracted and analyzed by the research subject. And the results 
show, by combining "Indigenous knowledge" and "modern knowledge “and 
regarding to existence  of  rural conditions such as  Indigenous areas ,
 taking into account the resources , the potential and conditions of 
each region can be acquired grounds for an favorable model from 
sustainable rural development. Despite the frequency of human resources 
in rural areas, the Lack of water and land push on farmland and cause to
 migration of labor efficient from rural to urban areas where efficiency
 is reduced because of lack of expertise. Therefore, in rural areas 
where there are no grounds for agriculture that can be used the non-farm
 economy, "such as local industries, etc.”},
DOI = {10.18488/journal.10/2017.6.1/10.1.1.7}
}