Recognition and analysis of tourism development policies (Case study: Dehdez city - Despart County)

The development of any geographical location depends on its natural and human capacities. What can accelerate or slow down the development of any place is the type of decisions and policies that govern it at the macro to micro levels. Tourism development is no exception to these policies. Therefore, part of tourism development depends on the policies emphasized. The purpose of this study is to identify and then analyze tourism development policies at both macro and micro levels in the form of a case study in Dehdez of  Despart County. The research method is descriptive-analytical and based on field data. The method of data collection in the first stage was interviewing and researching various scientific and executive documents and then completing a questionnaire. The statistical population of the study consists of experts from Despart district offices. Due to the lack of accurate statistics in this field, 50 people were questioned. The validity of the questionnaire was performed and the reliability was confirmed with Cronbach's coefficient above 0.70. The result of one-sample t-test showed that all micro and macro tourism development policies are significant at the level of less than 0.05. Based on the test results, two policies to strengthen cultural ties between the region and neighboring provinces with an average of 4.82 and the formation of tourism information site with an average of 4.58 as the most important macro policies of tourism development and two policies of managers' positive view of tourism capacity with average 4.76 and the diversity of service occupations with an average of 4.74 are known as the most important micro-tourism policies. The regression result also confirmed that in total, macro and micro policies studied can explain more than 71% of the tourism development variable, but macro policies are more effective than micro policies.