The Pattern of Sustainable Interaction between Politics and Cultural Heritage in the Cultural Tourism Development of Islamic Republic of Iran

Cultural tourism is one of the most favorite kinds of tourism in the world and different countries are establishing too many plans to develop it. The development of cultural tourism depends on the interaction of many components. Politics affects the ingredients and process of cultural tourism and Cultural heritage is the constructive source of cultural tourism. In this regard, they need to be highly interacted for the success of cultural tourism. From this point of view and to cultural tourism development in Iran, this article aims to assess the interaction between politics and cultural heritage in the Islamic republic of Iran and elicit factors can lead to optimized interaction between these components as a pattern. So researches tried to attain these factors by using of thematic analysis: interview with experts and related documents. Results shows that interactive factors can be classified as organizational area of cultural heritage and ultra-organizational area of cultural heritage. Organizational area includes heritage interpretation dimension and organizational enhancement dimension. Ultra-organizational area includes ideology based dimension, politics based dimension and culture based dimension. Also ultra-organizational area is more important than Organizational area in the creation and improvement of this interaction.