Pathology of Iran's Tourism Industry Financing in the Capital Market (Case Study)

The purpose of this research is to investigate the challenges and obstacles of financing projects of Iran's tourism industry through the capital market. The research paradigm is constructivism. considering that the purpose of this research; It is pathology, so its strategy is in the form of a case study and its approach is in the field of qualitative research. In this research method, the researcher for preliminary investigation; He has collected and reviewed all documents and scientific studies about the financing of the tourism industry, especially in the capital market, in order to identify its components, effective factors and consequences. Then, in order to confirm them, interviews were conducted with tourism industry, capital market, and university experts to achieve information saturation, and finally, to confirm the obtained information, a secondary focal interview was conducted again in the form of several group meetings.The results have shown that the main obstacles to the financing of this industry include the insufficient knowledge of the capital market and the tourism industry about each other, not having some necessary conditions to enter the capital market, the inherent characteristics of the projects, lack of desire and confidence to enter the capital market, the difference in the rate of return of the financial markets, the existence of multiple beneficiaries, the fact that most of the projects are not private, the existing laws and regulations, and some issues related to the financing system are among the main challenges for financing this industry using capital market capacities.