Analysis of the key Drivers of war tourism development in Border AreasThe Case study A Abadan and Khorramshahr

 Black tourism, bitter tourism or war tourism, was a central topic of attention after the end of the Second World War, which was established by the countries in terms of culture and tourism industry and its infrastructure. The purpose of this research is to analyze the key drivers affecting the development of war tourism in Abadan and Khorramshahr cities.

 The current research is based on analytical and exploratory methods. In this regard, after holding discussions with 35 elites and war tourism experts in these two cities in two stages, 30 primary variables were identified as the statistical population of the research in the form of four general dimensions. In the following, the primary variables were defined in the framework of the matrix of cross-effects in the Mic Mac futurist software.

 ased on the results of the Mic Mac method, the key drivers are classified into four categories: strategic, influential, dependent and independent. Finally, according to the high score of direct and indirect influence, 15 main key and influential factors in the future development of tourism in the two cities of Abadan and Khuzestan were identified. Based on this, the variables of reducing migration, developing and expanding means of transportation, increasing environmental pollution, increasing industries and industrial activities, increasing opportunities and markets for selling agricultural products, improving the quality of roads and roads, increasing the amount of people's capital can be the most important influencing parameters in the tourism environment. He considered the war in Abadan and Khorramshahr region.

 The results of the research indicated the instability of the war tourism system, and economic drivers had the most influence and the least influence.