Mohammad Hossein Imani Khoshkhoo - Associate professor of Tourism Department in University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
Afsaneh Pourjam - corresponding author: faculty member of Tourism Department in University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
Zahra Nadalipour - faculty member of Tourism Department in University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran

In one hand, competitiveness status of a country is strongly correlated with its entrepreneurial status and on the other hand, Competitiveness can be defined according to countries’ stage of development. Also entrepreneurship can facilitate the development process of a country as well as providing competitiveness through innovation. The current study, investigate the relationship between entrepreneurship and development, general competitiveness and tourism competitiveness between 111 countries with regard to their stage of development. For this purpose, secondary data from GEDI, GCI and TTCI (2113) is used and data are analyzed by SPSS 11 and hypothesis are tested through Pearson correlation. Results shows that the correlation between variables in all stages of development is significant.

entrepreneurship, competitiveness, development, tourism industry