Tourism Security and Legality in the Persian Gulf: Viewpoint of I. R. Iran

Today attention to legal regulations is one of the contributory factors to the development of tourism industry. Legality is located on the base of legislations which clarify tourists and host communities mutual responsibilities and rights, and its goal is organizing supply activities of tourism in a sustainable way. In any society tourism is influenced by politics and economy, so providing long term security is a major concern of any government and establishing security and legality are preferred. The Persian Gulf is one of the most important strategic waterways in the world. Geo-politically, geo-economically and geostrategically it has been considered an important and sensitive region during past centuries. This region possesses high potential and capacity to develop tourism industry. As such, in this paper features and components of security and security challenges facing tourism industry are described first and then role of government in providing security in accordance with safety issues in the world, security and tourism in the Persian Gulf are described. The research is based on descriptive-analytical method, documents and library studies. Results identify contributory factors to establish tourist's security and accurate policy making by government toward creating political security within and outside of the country and its effect on tourism development in the Persian Gulf.