Document Type : Research Paper
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Member of Yazd Uni.
Abstract
"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.
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