Tourism Management as an Economic Development Tool in Iran

Mohammad Taleghani, Azita Sherej Sharifi and Seyyed Javad Mousavian

International Journal of Business Administration, 2011, vol. 2, issue 4, 69-74

Abstract: Probably the greatest single deterrent to tourism development is the lack of appreciation and enthusiasm for tourism by civic and business leaders. When tourism is not understood and its benefits are unclear, planning and implementation of measures to improve the industry are often lacking. Global tourism has become the largest industry in the world, with nearly 500 million consumers of tourism services per year spending hundreds of billions of dollars. The industry provides employment to over 100 million people worldwide. In view of tourism's increasing role in economic activity, the factors affecting its performance should be analyzed. An understanding of these factors is crucial to determine the ways in which national and international financial institutions, NGOs, and other entities can play the most value-adding role. This paper provides a brief profile of key factors and trends in tourism and their economic effects at the global, national and regional levels.

Keywords: Tourism; Economic Development; Supply and Demand; GDP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/ijba/article/view/561/269 (application/pdf)
http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/ijba/article/view/561 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jfr:ijba11:v:2:y:2011:i:4:p:69-74

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Business Administration is currently edited by Jenny Zhang

More articles in International Journal of Business Administration from International Journal of Business Administration, Sciedu Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jenny Zhang ().