Tourism industry for poverty reduction in Iran

This article attempts to illustrate the status of tourism and its barriers to poverty reduction in Parseh, Iran. Tourism is certainly a major contributor to poverty reduction in many countries. But, there are significant numbers of barriers to effectively using tourism industry as a tool for poverty reduction in developing countries. The findings through focus group discussion indicated that there negative attitudes towards tourism development on poverty reduction. The result of this study also found that there are some organizational and community barriers in tourism development for poverty reduction. The finding can assist the local organizations for remove this problem in face of tourism for poverty reduction.