Comparative Study of Tourism Industry of Iran and Leading Countries Based on Travel and Tourism Development Index

Hashemzehi, Mohammad Amin; Pourshahabi, Vahid

doi:10.22034/jmsmo.2025.221003

Comparative Study of Tourism Industry of Iran and Leading Countries Based on Travel and Tourism Development Index

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohammad Amin Hashemzehi ¹

Vahid Pourshahabi ²

¹ MSc. Student, Department of Management, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

² Assistant Prof., Department of Management, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

10.22034/jmsmo.2025.221003

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to compare the tourism of Iran and leading countries based on the travel and tourism development index. This research is of applied, developmental and descriptive type. To collect the data of this research, the statistics available on international websites and also the researcher-made questionnaire were used. The statistical population of this research in the first part includes the statistics related to Iran and the countries of France, Spain, and Germany. In the second part, the statistical population includes all specialists and experts related to the tourism industry in an unlimited number of which 384 people were selected as a sample using stratified random method. T-test and univariate analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. The structural equation method has been used to validate the model. The software used to analyze the data in this study includes SPSS and Smart-PLS software. The results of this research show that there is a significant difference between the tourism industry of Iran and the studied countries. Finally, the travel and tourism competitiveness model for Iran has been presented.

Keywords

Tourism industry

leading countries

comparative study

travel and tourism development index

Subjects

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