The role of tourism in entrepreneurship and tourism sustainability in Ilam City

Sustainability has emerged as an effective and challenging concept in business andpolitics so we need to know it wholly to have a big change in order to decrease the harmful environmental and social effects which are the outcomes of current unsustainable business methods. The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of tourism in entrepreneurship and tourism sustainability in Ilam City. This research is a descriptive practical survey. The population includes the inhabitants of Ilam City and 384 of them were chosen as a sample by Cochran’s method and were given the confirmed questionnaires with alpha 0.831 by Simple Random Sampling. The data is analyzed by the use of Confirmatory Factor Analysis in SPSS software. The findings reveal that tourism is effective in entrepreneurship and development of tourism sustainability in Ilam City and economic, social, infrastructural, environmental and individual factors have a positive and meaningful effect on entrepreneurship and development of tourism sustainability.