Zahra Nadalipour

• PhD. Tourism Management
• Associate Professor at University of Science and Culture

Purpose This paper aims to study the impact of increasing number of competitors on the organisational learning (OL) in tourism small and medium-sized enterprises. The focus of this study is the tourism and travel agencies (TTAs) of the City of Ahvaz where the OL was studied within TTAs insofar as increasing the number of competitors is concerned....

Today, social media has considerably affected all social and economic aspects of our lives. Marketing is one of the fields which has significantly evolved through applying the power of virtual networks and social platforms, particularly marketing of tourism and travel products. Social platforms such as Instagram, by using their capabilities in shar...

Introduction: Medical tourism is developing more rapidly, particularly in developing countries, as a tool to enhance economic growth and achieve a competitive position. The present study aims to investigate and identify contributory factors to the competitiveness of Iran’s medical tourism using importance-performance analysis. Methods: This is an a...

Purpose This study aims at developing a framework to investigate and analyze sustainable competitiveness in tourism destinations. Design/methodology/approach This study has a qualitative approach, and it has been conducted by use of a comprehensive literature review. First, the key concepts of the study such as destination competitiveness, sustain...

Spirituality" is an emerging concept which is being raised in tourism literature, particularly in tourism experience studies; but studies on destination competitiveness are still focusing on the objective aspects of destinations, whereas the subjective concepts such as "spirituality" have rarely been considered when analysing competitiveness in tou...

Obviously, conservation of a historical site requires understanding of its actual values and adapting planners’ and managers’ perception to such real values. It is helpful to planners and managers to recognize landscape values of cultural heritages towards appropriately conservation as well as providing these sites as tourist attractions. For bette...

The objective of this study is to investigate the extent of spirituality in various types of tourism, and to test the hypothesis of the existence of common spiritual experiences among all types of tourists. McKercher's typology of cultural tourists and Norman's (2012) typology of tourists' spiritual experiences were applied to classify various grou...

The objective of this study is to investigate the extent of spirituality in various types of tourism, and to test the hypothesis of the existence of common spiritual experiences among all types of tourists. McKercher's typology of cultural tourists and Norman's (2012) typology of tourists' spiritual experiences were applied to classify various grou...

Abstract Competitiveness is a famous word frequently mentioned in the management and economics literature. In recent decades, this concept has been entered into tourism literature and has received growing recognition. Over the past years, many studies on topics such as Destination Competitiveness or more generally Travel and Tourism Competitiveness...

Abstract This paper aims to examine tourism competitiveness positions of the countries based on competitiveness factors presented in Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum in 2013. In fact, it aims to determine the most and least effective factors in determining countries' competitiveness positions. Then thi...