Published 2025-02-01
“…The most important advantage of promoting entrepreneurship in tourism can be said that since the tourism sector is one of the country's economic sectors and in fact, one of the axes of the country's economic development, thinkers and policy makers have paid special attention to the development of entrepreneurship in tourism and solving its problems (Hesam et al, 2015).Tourism social entrepreneurshipSheldon et al, (2017) have defined the tourism social entrepreneurship as follows: a process that uses tourism to create innovative solutions for urgent social, environmental and economic problems in the destination by mobilizing ideas, capacities, resources and social agreements, from inside or outside the destination, for its sustainable social transformation (Sheldon et al, 2017).Mansoori et al, (2024) investigated the presentation of the model of factors affecting the development of scientific tourism in
Iran's higher education system. The obtained results showed that the nine main factors affecting the formation of higher education tourism in
Iran in order of influence are: dynamic political exchanges with the world at the national level, the existence of macro-national policies in the field of academic interaction, facilitating the process of acceptance in political and administrative dimensions, the existence of economic and technical infrastructures for foreign students, the international language level of faculty members and staff as well as the structure of dynamic and accepting higher education, the existence of a sense of security in social, security and political dimensions for foreign students, and branding factors of universities and introducing historical, cultural and religious attractions to the world.Ratten (2020) in a research comprehensively examined researches in the field of entrepreneurship in tourism and it is noted that it focused on lifestyle and sustainable forms of tourism entrepreneurship without considering emerging technologies and other forms of entrepreneurship like digital and social.Research methodologyThe research method is qualitative and applicable. …”
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