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The purpose of doing this research is to analyze and evaluate the effect of Alamut castle tourism on economic situation and employment of inhabitants in Gazorkhan village of Alamut. For collection of the field data, the closed 20-question questionnaire tool with standard scale was used. In order to study the effects between the research variables and hypotheses, the Structural Equations Model (SEM) and especially route analysis technique have been used by applying PLS software. Current research has 5 main hypotheses. From 5 hypotheses of the research, one hypothesis namely the residential indexes with regard to this issue that have allocated significant numbers in the range of 1.96 and -1.96 to themselves, has been rejected and the rest of the hypotheses with regard to their significance number were confirmed. According to the research results, it was specified that the region space pattern in the villager tourism frame embraces the historical tourism and ecotourism species and these attractions may be one of the effective and perhaps important factors of tourism aspect in the region. It is necessary that in the first stage, the region to be organized for attracting the regional tourists and in this field, passing the leisure times by citizens in the townships of Qazvin province must be in priority.

Keywords: Gazorkhan, Alamut castle, residential index, historical tourism, ecotourism

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