Presenting a Model of Sustainable Tourism Ecosystem with Meta Synthesis Approach

The tourism ecosystem is recognized as a factor of economic prosperity and environmental protection, and a sustainable tourism ecosystem ensures the equitable distribution of opportunities for future generations. The present study aimed to identify the factors affecting the sustainable tourism ecosystems using a Meta Synthesis approach. In this study, 39 studies related to the subject have been extracted from various scientific databases since 1994-2020, which have been examined using the seven-step model of Sandelowski and Barroso. By analyzing their content, the relevant concepts and categories were extracted and the importance and priority of the concepts were determined using the Shannon entropy method. The categories of human capital education, culture, personal characteristics, networking and markets, investment and financing, legislation and policies and infrastructure are the most important factors affecting the sustainable tourism ecosystems, respectively.