Development of a strategic tourism management plan for Hormoz Island

This study tried to analyze the relationship between tourism and the destruction of Hormuz Island as one of the important tourism destinations in Iran by analyzing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of tourism through a questionnaire and SWOT matrix, and finally, management strategies were presented. The results showed that the progress of the Island requires serious management actions promptly to prevent the destruction of the environment and attractions of Hormoz Island. Based on the analysis of the matrix of internal and external factors, the evaluation of the internal and external environment was equal to 2.37 and 2.07, respectively, which led to the selection of defensive strategies (WT) as the best strategies. Among the defensive strategies, the strategy of setting rules for buying and selling and preventing of launching tourism-related businesses by non-indigenous people to support the local community and preventing capital outflow from Hormoz Island was selected as the first management priority and the second strategy of regional management for tourism was to establish an electronic system to record the entry and exit of ecotourists to the pristine beaches to reduce damages to the ecosystems and encouraging tourists to use ecotourism resorts to support the local community.