Identify and evaluate The Abilities Eco tour guides (Case study: Tehran province Eco tour guides)

Concerning the revenue, today tourism industry is placed in the third position ofworld industries and countries have tried greatly in order to improve this industry. During recent years, between sub-fields of tourism, ecotourism has becomeconsiderably important. Despite of high potential of our country in holding ecotourism tours and the importance of roles and operation of ecotourism guides, so concerning the importance of their roles in presenting services and protection ofenvironment and also lack of consideration to the subjects which is related to ecotourism guides, tourism literature in this research is concerning the evaluation ofabilities of ecotourism guides. In this research by using conceptual theory and interviewing g with experts, abilities of guides were recognized and 25 cases ofabilities were chosen. Then the ecotourism guides of Tehran province were asked to evaluate the importance of each case in questionnaire with the 5 point Likert scale. The sample of 100 people with accidental simple sampling was chosen. Foranalyzing the data and evaluating the importance of abilities, the Binominal and Friedman tests were used. Findings of research reveal that abilities including "responsibility and loyalty", "secretary of tourist's personal information and protector of them", "self-confidence and decisiveness", "performing the moral and legal commitments on tour” are prioritized as competencies which are necessary foran ecotourism.