This study presents an empirical investigation to study the post-war tourism in sought west
region of Iran. This region is the host of many Iranian who wish remember the events of War
between Iran and Iraq. Many high school or university students travel to the region through
cultural as well as religious communities. This paper tries to analyze the challenges facing these
people when they travel to province of Khozestan, Iran. The study designs a questionnaire in
Likert scale and distributes it among some randomly selected people who visited the region.
The implementation of Pearson correlation test has determined that “Weakness of tourism
infrastructure facilities and services” is to be blamed the most followed by “Underdevelopment
of decision making centers”. Moreover, path analysis has been implemented to detect direct
and indirect effects of different factors on development of tourism in the region. In our survey,
marketing, culture and weakness in infrastructures have been determined the most important
factors influencing on development of the region.