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    Contribution of Rural Tourism as a Development Strategy for Rural Community (Special Reference to Hiriwadunna Village Track, Meemure and Heeloya Knuckles Valley Tourism Village in Sri Lanka)
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2020) Pattiyagedara, P.G.S.S.; Fernando, P.I.N.; Ranaweera, R.A.A.K.
    Rural tourism is one of the niche markets of the tourism industry and crucial determinant which mostly deals with the rural lifestyle. Sri Lanka is a country that has the potentials for rural tourism development as an island with rich natural resources and human capital. Yet, there is a few types of research related to rural tourism development in Hiriwadunna Village Track, Meemure, and Heeloya Knuckles Valley Tourism village in Sri Lanka conducted on rural tourism activities regularly as one of their main livelihoods. The main focuses of this study were to identify the impact of destination attributes on visitor satisfaction and determine the contribution of rural tourism initiatives on the household economy and socio-culture of tourism stakeholders. A convenient sampling technique was used to select two sets of respondents such as 100 foreign, local visitors, and 12 tourism stakeholders as the sample. Both quantitative and qualitative research design (mixed methods) was adopted in the research. The information was derived from questionnaires and structured interviews. The study used descriptive analysis, multiple regression analysis, and thematic analysis methods. Findings indicated that attraction, accessibility, amenities, ancillary services, available packages, and activities (destination attributes) significantly influenced visitor satisfaction. The need to improve accessibility and ancillary services through infrastructure development. The benefits of rural tourism have been expressed as direct employment, economic growth, social empowerment, living standard, cultural exchange, and destination image. According to the results, the negative impacts were revealed as poor quality jobs, cost of living, cultural influences, and misbehavior. There is a huge potential to develop sustainable tourism concepts under rural tourism such as agro-tourism, community-based tourism, and nature-based tourism as an instrument of multidimensional poverty in these rural areas. . Keywords: Rural tourism, Destination attributes, Tourists satisfaction, Household economy
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    A Study on Contribution of Rural Tourism as a Development Strategy for Rural Community (Special reference to Hiriwadunna village track, Meemure and Heeloya knuckles valley tourism village in Sri Lanka)
    (Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2015) Pattiyagedara, P.G.S.S.
    Tourism is a significant economic sector in Sri Lanka.Rural tourism is one of the niche market of the tourism industry and crucial determinant which mostly deal with the rural lifestyle. Sri Lanka is a country which has potentials for rural tourism development as an island with rich natural resources and human capital.The study investigated the research area as the Hiriwadunna Village Track, Meemure, and Heeloya Knuckles Valley Tourism village in Sri Lanka,which conduct rural tourism activities in a regular basis as one of their main livelihood.The objectives of this study were to identify the profile of the tourists in rural tourism destinations,identify the impact of destination attributes on tourists satisfaction and determine the contribution of rural tourism initiatives to the household economy and socio-culture of tourism stakeholders.The sample was selected using Convenient sampling method and sample size consists with two sets of respondents such as 100 foreign and local tourists and 12 tourism stakeholders.Study adapted the both quantitative and qualitative analysis methods (Mixed methods). Data were gatherd by using Questionnaires and structured interviews.The study used Descriptive analysis, Multiple regression analysis and Thematic analysis methods.The analysis revealed that it is almost agreed with the destination attributes within the rural tourism destinations.Through the derieved results reveald that all six destination attributes (6A' s ) significantly influence on the visitor satisfaction. Alongside it was found a rural tourism has generated positive economic and socio cultural impact sush as income generation, women employment, economic growth and social empowerment than the negative impact. The finding of this research showed the stakeholders held a favourable image towards the rural tourism development and need for an proper mechanism to promote rural tourism in those places. There is a huge potential to develop sustainable tourism concepts under the rural tourism such as agro tourism, community based tourism and nature based tourism asa an instrument of multidimensional poverty in rural areas. Key words : Rural tourism, Destination attributes, Tourists satisfaction, Household economy