Feasibility of tourism cluster of South Khorasan

Cluster development strategy is one of the successful models for organizing small and medium enterprises, which has been around for over three decades and has played a major role in the regional development of different countries, and through the concentration in the relationships within the cluster, It creates a competitive advantage for a tourism destination and strengthens the competition and cooperation among the cluster components of tourism. Due to the fact that the South Khorasan is located in the desert of Iran and has cultural, historical and natural attractions, the title is considered as one of the tourism areas. The goal of identifying tourism cluster in this study is that introduce main elements of tourism cluster of South Khorasan based on tourism clusters formed in other parts of the world and conditions and the existing tourism sector of this city. In an interview with the experts of the field of tourism, they considered the main elements of tourism and complementary elements of the cluster. The results show there are relatively well-organized relationships between the main elements tourism cluster (Cultural Heritage Organization, Municipality, Red Crescent, Hotels, etc.). And in order to strengthen and develop these inter-trade relations, we need to take wider measures and we must pay more attention And some other elements, including banks, private companies and trustworthy organizations in the tourism sector, etc can play an effective and efficient role in the tourism cluster, and also most of them believe in the lack of Government intervention in the management of cluster tourism.

کلیدواژه ها:

cluster ، tourism cluster ، cluster complement elements ، cluster development ، South Khorasan