Socio-Cultural Strategy

Socio-Cultural Strategy

Challenges and requirements of Visa openness policy in tourism development of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
1 MA student of Islamic Studies, Culture and Communication, Imam Sadiq University (AS), Tehran, Iran (Corresponding author).
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Governance, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Culture and Communication, Imam Sadegh University (AS), Tehran, Iran.
3 Director of Sports, Cultural Heritage and Tourism Department, Culture and Education Studies Office, Islamic Council Research Center, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Visa openness is one of the incentive policies to attract incoming tourists, which of course should not be the only policy considered by countries. This research aimed to investigate the situation and challenges of canceling visas of the Islamic Republic of Iran with other countries and its effect on inbound tourism through qualitative methodology, conducting interviews with the snowball method and verifying the findings through the Delphi method, which confirmed the validity and reliability of the research. The innovation of this article is finding the reasons for the failure of the visa cancellation policy in the development of tourism in the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is one of the six major problems, including deficiencies in supporting the Visa openness policy, incorrect orientation of the Visa openness policy, lack of institutional mapping, lack of inter-sectoral coordination, lack of cross-sectoral perspective and lack of attention to international issues. Ignoring political and security considerations, the need to improve infrastructure (especially security infrastructure), international restrictions due to illegitimate US sanctions, lack of sufficient facilitation by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, lack of law or resolution to resolve inter-institutional conflicts, weakness in providing insurance services, cancellation One-way visas, incorrect and weak statistics, and weakness in welfare infrastructure were identified as the problems under these problems. Therefore, it is suggested to use the capacity of the Supreme Council of Cultural Heritage and Tourism to prepare the institutional mapping of the division of work between institutions in this area, to consider strengthening the infrastructure, to involve the private sector in the aforementioned processes, and to divide the world into five categories of ECO member countries, .Arabic countries, BRICS, Latin America and ASEAN should be noted.
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  • Receive Date 30 January 2024
  • Revise Date 14 April 2024
  • Accept Date 15 April 2024