Abstract

The scientific attention is commonly focused to social effects of tourism and perception of local people and tourism conception of tourist and that’s effects pratically. The host and tourism interaction is a multi-dimensional and complex phenomenon between the tourists and the host community that are variable in terms of roles and expectations. Identifying and analyzing the friendly networks between tourisms and local people of Hormuz Island is the main aim of this study and in order to investigate these relationship and its social effects. Therefore, after conducting interviews and completing questionnaires by selected people, the collected data were analyzed using descriptive analyses, network’s analysis, and Visone‘s software. The results showed that an informal friendly relationship and cooperation between the inhabitants and tourisms of Hormuz Island can be had positive consequences such as increasing ecotourism development, ecotourism sustainment and better ecotourism recognition of Hormuz Island in the inside and outside of the country.