Developmental programs in local communities, without the support and participation of residents, will face numerous challenges in implementation. Empowering residents before implementing these programs, while reducing the costs and losses, will facilitate and speed up the implementation of the positive outcomes of entrepreneurial initiatives. Based on this approach, the purpose of this study was to identify and prioritize the most important components of empowerment of entrepreneurial ecotourism in rural areas of Sistan and Balochestan province. The research method is purposeful, applied and descriptive-survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of experts related to the tourism area of the Directorate General of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism of Sistan and Baluchestan province, and some university professors were 26 who were counted. The research data were collected based on the priority questionnaire, which was based on identified components and indicators and analyzed with Expert Choice software. Political empowerment with weight of 226 was ranked as first, Economic empowerment with weight of 172, And social empowerment with a weight of 142 were ranked as second and third, respectively. Therefore, it is recommended that policy makers in the field of entrepreneurial ecotourism should develop the mental and intellectual empowerment of target communities in their priorities.

Community-based tourism participation of local communities in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. Participatory framework riders also tried to attract the active participation of all stakeholders throughout the planning process. So in this study, agricultural tourism planning for community-based participatory framework used to ride. Collecting information through meetings of discussion groups seven two groups of beneficiaries (farmers, managers) is obtained. Finally, stakeholders and managers of the group as facilitator operated in four stages to evaluate the strengths, opportunities, aspirations and results of agricultural tourism development focused executive. The results indicated that the assembling process is scientific community. In fact, this process can take from a reactive mode to all stakeholders, including farmers and the division of power and responsibility for them according to their interests, all of them are empowered. The local community and other stakeholders and facilitators together with an educational approach to enforcement Results for the development of agricultural tourism in the village of Dizaj achieved. Finally all groups interested in volunteering with the division of duties, were obliged to implement the program in accordance with the principles of sustainability.

Community-based tourism is an approach to achieving sustainable tourism that focuses on community productivity. Being productive in the context of a society in the field of community-based tourism requires active participation, which is greatly influenced by the cultural atmosphere of the society. For this purpose, the present study has identified and prioritized the cultural challenges of tourism stakeholder participation in Iran. Initially, nine major challenges were extracted based on domestic and foreign literature and localized and prioritized using the SWARA method based on the integration of the opinions of seven tourism, urban, and academic affairs experts. Structural relationships between challenges were performed using interpretive structural modeling, in which challenges were balanced at five levels. The DEMATEL method was used to confirm the results. According to the findings of the present study, among the cultural challenges of community-based tourism, the inefficiency of mass media and lack of sense of belonging had the most impact and lack of trust and limited interactions, ambiguity, and indifference of individuals had the most interaction with other challenges, respectively. Introduction Achieving comprehensive and sustainable development is the main concern of most governments today. Community-based tourism (CBT) in its original form links community development strategies and sustainability in tourism activities. CBT is the interaction between different cultures in a single space and the benefit of all individuals from the benefits that are required, which requires principled management to take into account the preferences of all individuals. CBT must contribute to the independence of the society through comprehensive sustainable development. Local culture should be emphasized in the development of the community and at the grassroots level. The local cultural context should be considered and used as a starting point for community development projects. As tourism is a service and human-centered industry, the constructive role of the people for development should not be overlooked. People should be involved in the development of this industry and decisions and policies to participate in the implementation of programs and be well acquainted with the problems, obstacles, and benefits of this industry. Also because participation is greatly influenced by the cultural atmosphere of a community,therefore, the present study identifies and prioritizes cultural barriers affecting community-based tourism. Given the importance of community participation in the tourism industry, cultural barriers affecting the participation of tourism stakeholders have been identified. Using the interpretive structural modeling technique, a model of their internal relationships has been provided. This model is an appropriate approach in creating a hierarchical structure of factors, based on the degree of impact and effectiveness of each obstacle to form a comprehensive and clear view of key obstacles and how they relate to each other. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to answer the following three research questions: 1) what are the cultural barriers affecting community-based tourism? 2) What are the priorities for the implementation of these criteria from the perspective of experts? 3) What are the causal relations of cultural barriers to community-based tourism? The study mentions the research method and findings, conclusions, and suggestions for future studies. The results of this study can be used by policymakers to introduce more systematic solutions to remove cultural barriers to community-based tourism and to help communities and entrepreneurs overcome the challenges of sustainable development. Materials and Methods The present study is applied and descriptive survey in terms of research orientation and data collection, respectively. At first, using domestic and foreign literature, nine of the most important cultural barriers of stakeholder participation in tourism were identified and then weighed by seven experts active in the field of tourism and urban management using the SWARA method. The feature of the researchers in the present study was to use the information of experts based on their deep knowledge of the relevant field and their relative knowledge of the sub-dimensions of the subject. After prioritizing the barriers, using the ISM method, a model of the internal relationships of the barriers with each other was prepared and DEMATEL software was used to confirm the model. Discussion of Results Prioritized barriers in the interpretive structural sector were aligned at five levels, with the polarization of the social environment at the first level and the inefficiency of the mass media at the fifth level. Findings in the DEMATEL section showed that barriers to mass media inefficiency, lack of sense of belonging, limited cultural capacity with the highest (D-R), respectively, were identified as the most influential factors, and barriers to distrust and limited interaction, ambiguity and apathy, and lack of honesty of members with the highest (D + R), respectively, had the most interaction. Conclusions In this study, by reviewing the research literature and using the opinions of experts, cultural barriers to community-based tourism were identified and prioritized. According to the findings of Dematel causal analysis, barriers to mass media inefficiency, lack of sense of belonging, limited cultural capacity, and differences in value and norm were identified as effective barriers. Due to the high impact of mass media on community participation, future studies could examine how the media works to evoke a sense of belonging in communities and public participation in tourism procurement, how media policies, by eliminating the polar atmosphere in communities, motivate participation in joint programs between the government and the nation, and basically how to create a culture of participation and innovation in the development of participatory tourism destinations.

The tourism industry, with its own characteristics, is a dynamic industry with a bright future. Investing in this industry could play an important role in increasing national income while being free from adverse environmental consequences. Due to the increasing importance of tourism, it is necessary to analyze its impact on other dimensions. Possessing special potentials, the Yazd city is highly affected by different economic, social, environmental, and physical aspects of the tourism industry. As the Yazd province enjoys the required capacities for performing activities such as climbing, visiting the sand dunes and sand flows, hiking in the slopes of Shirkouh, etc., effective steps can be taken for improving tourist attractions through accurate and well-reflected planning. Therefore, this study sought to identify relevant factors, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats involved in developing sustainable tourism, elaborating on an appropriate model for realizing this goal and analyzing a community-based tourism capacity building in Yazd. The required data for this "descriptive-analytical" study were collected from library studies, relevant documents, and the questionnaire administered on 50 experts and staff members of active tourism NGOs, which were analyzed and weighted using the SWOT-AHP integrated model. The investigated indices included attracting public participation (public mobilization) with a total average of 4/4, facilitating (offering information), institutionalizing and empowering local groups with a total average of 4/3, enhancing collective partnership system with a total average of 4/2, identifying entrepreneurship and job opportunities, and local needs analysis and its update, indicating that tourism NGOs possess high capacities for implementing community-based tourism in Yazd.

Tourism policies widely affect the lives of local residents. On the other hand, the effectiveness of such policies depends on the local community’s support and participation. Therefore, the present study sought to investigate the influence of the Local Community’s Place Image and their perception of tourism impacts on their support for tourism policies in Semnan. To this end, some 340 questionnaires were distributed among local residents, out of which 322 questionnaires were completed by the respondents. The collected data were then analyzed by PLS software using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results indicated that the residents’ place image had a direct significant effect on their perception of tourism impacts and consequently on their support for tourism development policies. Moreover, the findings highlighted the necessity of evaluating tourism impacts based on the perceptions of residents, because the more favorable they consider the tourism impacts, the more support they give to tourism development policies. Finally, this study suggests some policy recommendations on how to manage the local community’s place image, their perceptions of tourism impacts, and their support for tourism policy-making.

The importance of sustainability development for developing countries and their tourism is a major issue. This study presents a new approach and framework for spatial modelling of tourism products potentials (TPP) in their sustainability evaluation. The approach was developed based on the GIS multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and its performance was evaluated for spatial TPP mapping in Tabriz city, Iran. To achieve this purpose, we recognized the main Components of Tourism Development indicators (CTDI) such as attractions, accommodation, services and infrastructures facilities to improving sustainable tourism, and determined their significance using the Geographic information systems (GIS). Furthermore, the uncertainty analyze was applied to diminish the inherent error in criteria weights. A GIS-based aggregation function was applied to discern the TPP map. Finally, the emphasis in this paper investigates the practical usage of GIS for the benefit of sustainable tourism development. In particular, it inquired the possible opportunities and challenges facing the adoption of GIS to assist sustainable tourism development. The purpose of this article is to map and explore existing and potential attractions, tourism services and facilities in Tabriz and to ensure that potential opportunities are available for all tourists to enjoy enjoyable experiences in order to reveal their diverse economic, social, political and cultural benefits. Build on the positive and negative aspects of their construction and present them with appropriate solutions for tourism development that lead to sustainable tourism development and infrastructure improvement.

"Community-oriented tourism" is seen as a suitable tool for promoting tourism development, increasing community welfare and also empowering local communities. Community-oriented tourism" is seen as a suitable and alternative tool for promoting tourism development, increasing community welfare and also empowering local communities. However, despite efforts to meaningfully participate in tourism development projects, community participation remains a challenge. Therefore, this study aims to identify the challenges of social participation of the local community and also provide practical suggestions to overcome these challenges. In order to carry out this research, challenges were identified and investigated using the background study of the research. In the following, these challenges were transformed into a structured system using the interpretative structural modeling technique. In order to fit the formed structural system, the technique of structural equations was used with the application of SmartPLS software. The statistical population of the current research is made up of 29 people from Iran's tourism industry as experts and 114 as sample respondents of the questionnaire. The results of the research show that the identified challenges fall into three categories: operational, structural, and social, and the challenges of the structural category are the source of other challenges, and suggestions were made in order to solve the challenges.