Tracing the Impact Pathways of COVID-19 on Tourism and Developing Strategies for Resilience and Adaptation in Iran

The COVID-19 epidemic has caused unprecedented impacts on the travel and tourism industry. current study traced of in Iran using an “Impact Pathway (IP)” approach to identify possible mitigation strategies. results illustrate two main impact pathways: negative along economic-institutional socio-cultural dimensions, positive physical-environmental dimension. Using SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) ANP (analytic network process) models, we identified defensive review strategies as optimal for increasing resilience against COVID-19. These control threats weaknesses enhance opportunities strengths emerging from pandemic tourism. We use this information dealing with crisis Most prominently among them is development integrated management system that improves coordination response local government better orchestrates combined efforts integration non-governmental organizations.