Simin Armaghan - Department of Geography, Collrge of Faculty of Science Yadegar -e- Imam Khomeini (RAH) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Today, the residents of urban areas try to spend some time in the natural quiet, original and intact environments to escape from the various types of environmental pollution that threatens them. Therefore, tourism is one of the phenomena that has affected the rural areas and especially the summer villages of Tehran in recent decades. The purpose of this study was to investigate the process of emergence and identification of environmental factors in the development of tourism around metropolis of Tehran. The method of this research is descriptive-analytical. For information gathering, field surveys (questionnaires) were used and ۱۰۰ households were interviewed. The results show that the tourism of the studied villages dates back to the decades ۱۹۹۱s and ۸۰s, so that in the ۲۰۰۱s, it had a growing trend, and a meaningful relationship between natural and human factors in the formation of this industry has existed. According to the findings of the research, it is suggested to identify the effects and environmental factors in the development of tourism structures in rural areas.

Environmental factors, Rural Areas, Rural tourism