Hamed Fallah Tafti; mir mohamad asadi; Jamileh Ghasemloi Soltanabad
Abstract
Identifying Crisis factors in the tourism industry has become a fundamental necessity in many tourism destinations due to natural-environmental and political events. Due to Iran's location in the Middle East which is plagued with crises, devising an unified risk strategy in tourism is unavoidable. The ...
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Identifying Crisis factors in the tourism industry has become a fundamental necessity in many tourism destinations due to natural-environmental and political events. Due to Iran's location in the Middle East which is plagued with crises, devising an unified risk strategy in tourism is unavoidable. The present study is a developmental-applied research that since the tourism industry is a service- based nature, has provided an integrated strategy for crisis management.The target population was a group of experts of the tourism industry and academic individuals.The collected data were analyzed by fuzzy cognitive mapping technique. According to the final model, the most effective crisis factors in Iran's tourism industry are: political instability in the region, insufficient Infrastructures, environmental pollution, currency fluctuations, infectious diseases and natural disasters and it recommended the use of an integrated management system in the tourism industry.
Mir Mohamad Asadi; Seyed Habibolah Mirghafoori; Jamileh Ghasemloi Soltanabad
Abstract
The tourism industry is one of the most important phenomena in the current century, which, in the near future, could be the first and most important industry in the world. Influencing economy, this industry is an important factor to promote social and cultural purposes. Considering Iran’s main ...
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The tourism industry is one of the most important phenomena in the current century, which, in the near future, could be the first and most important industry in the world. Influencing economy, this industry is an important factor to promote social and cultural purposes. Considering Iran’s main economic problem, namely the reduction of oil revenues and reliance on the resistive economy, a comparison can be made among Iran, Turkey, and Malaysia. The present study in terms of purpose is applied-descriptive research and from the prospect of type is surveys, and the statistical population was expert_ university professors, tourism organization members, and agency managers; the method used for analyzing data was FCM (Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping). Based on the final model, the most influencing and influenced factors were as follows: Formulating a National tourism development plan in Iran, increasing capital and investment security in the tourism industry, improving international relations, recovering tourism infrastructures, developing domestic tourism, turning the structure of tourism organization into a ministry.
