Identifying the Precedents of Bounce-Forward Resilience of Tourism Businesses in The Conditions of Economic Sanctions

Tourism businesses in the country pay special attention to Bounce-forward resilience or sustainability in order to generate their sources of income. But sanctions as an economic-political constraint have led to significant uncertainty and turmoil in many industries, including the tourism industry, and the sudden outbreak of the Corona virus has increased the effects of sanctions on the industry. Therefore, the purpose of this study is identifying the precedents of Bounce-forward resilience of tourism businesses in the conditions of economic sanctions. For this purpose, a qualitative approach was taken to identify those factors and 18 experts who were selected from tourism business activists through snowball sampling were interviewed. Based on the obtained data, a conceptual framework was developed and validated by content analysis method. Then in a quantitative section, the ranking of themes was made with using the weighted average method. The reliability of the interviews was obtained by the two-coder method with an agreement rate of 79%.The findings of the study led to the identification of seven main themes in order of priority, including environmental protection for tourism development, development of social interactions with tourists, development of financial-economic capacity in attracting tourism, development of competitiveness compared to other tourist countries, institutional capacity building in relation to tourist attraction, management of tourism-related processes and development of human capabilities in providing tourism services were organized with 21 themes and 127 basic themes. Finally, suggestions have been made based on the research findings.