Geographical Research

The purpose of this paper is studying the people's attitude toward tourism development in regions 7 and 10 of Tabriz and comparison of attitudes toward  participation and tourism development between the two communities in order to identify any similarities and differences. This paper is descriptive – analytical and data collection was performed through questionnaires and library studies. Factor Analysis and tests, such as Kendall, Gamma and Somers correlation coefficient, in SPSS19 Software for data analysis  is used and Cronbach's alpha to determine the reliability of the data, with 0.806 estimated amount. The results shows that peoples attitude toward participation and tourism development from economic view in two studying regions were positive and the lonely difference is, people who have been studied in region 7, have more positive attitude towards the conditions after the tourism development. but in both studying regions people are desperate and doubtful toward social and environmental qualification.