Pages: 10-19

Abstract

Tourism industry is considered as the largest and most diverse industry in the World. Many ‎countries know this dynamic industry as the main source of income, employment, Private section ‎growth and infrastructure development.Especially in developing countries where other forms of ‎economic development such as production and extraction are not economical or do not have an ‎important role in commerce and trading,so much attention is given to development of tourism ‎industry. Kurdistan province due to its appropriate historical and cultural conditions and facilities ‎and also its natural tourism attractions is one of the tourism hubs in the country and every year it ‎attracts so many tourists. Present paper introduces natural and historical attractions of Hasan Abad ‎village in Kurdistan province to encourage tourists and interested people in tourism to visit this ‎village. For this aim, several field studies and information collectionfrom different organizations ‎were conducted and potentials and attractions, the number of tourists, kind and objectives of the ‎village visitors were determined qualitatively and quantitatively and finally some recommendation ‎were proposed for tourism development in this village‎.