Evaluation of Tourism Sustainable Development in Iran; Obstacles, Challenges and Solutions

Unilateral policies of growth and development in many newly independent countries after World War II caused damage to natural resources. As a result, the international community revised its policy and sustainable development with the slogan of preserving natural resources for future generations entered the world's scientific literature. This issue entered quickly in most fields, including tourism. Sustainable tourism changed into an area that most of the countries carried out a lot of planning to achieve it. Iran has also been planned programs, but as statistics show this goal is not achieved. This paper uses descriptive - analysis and emphasizes the sustainable development of tourism. This study first describes the sustainable tourism development and then analyzes the barriers to achieving this goal. The results show that Iran is far from achieving sustainable tourism and according to studies, it is tried to suggest the model to attract tourists and create sustainable tourism development in Iran.