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Tourism and tourists have become a characteristic feature of current societies. Cities and regions are being planned and transformed in a way that they will attract more tourists and tourism investors. With the increasing improvement of tourism industry, the custodians of this industry should have plans to improve and construct new facilities, adequate plan for the entertainment of tourists so they can have a higher income from this industry. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to deliberate more about motivation, personality, reasons and patterns of inbound tourists with emphasis on tourists staying at hotels in Tehran, so that this information will be given to managers, programmers and responsible peoples in the tourism industry, with the intention that they can organize a plan to develop effective investment and management programs.

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Saharnaz Amirtahmaseb, Master: Studied Tourism and Hospitality Management at Lulea University/ Sweden. Account Manager at daarvag International, Tehran/Iran

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