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It is generally assumed that the well-being of rural tourism communities is related to their degree of resilience. However, despite the importance of community resilience and its potential for long-term economic development, the factors affecting the resilience of the tourism community for sustainable development are often overlooked in the planning stages of tourism development projects in many parts of the world. The purpose of this study is to present a model for the resilience of the rural tourism community to the three components of community resilience, including environmental, social, and economic resilience for sustainable tourism development. In this study, through an in-depth study of the literature and open interviews with 15 experts in the field of rural development and tourism familiar with the sustainable development of the tourism industry in Hamadan, information was collected and using a heuristic approach of theme analysis and coding, finally 45 variables, 9 components, and 3 dimensions were extracted. Then in the next stage, the research components were implemented by 15 research experts using a questionnaire and interpretive-structural modeling (ISM) method and using MATLAB software, position, importance, and the effectiveness of the extracted research components were presented at five levels. The results of this study indicate that the component of financial support for sustainable development of tourism has the greatest effect and is the cornerstone of the resilience of the rural tourism community, and the component of health and safety of the tourism community has the most dependence.

Objective: This research pursues two main objectives: 1) designing an integrated system for ‎evaluating sustainable performance with an emphasis on the main executive processes of the ‎cement supply chain, and 2) identifying the position and role of the criteria of this system ‎in interaction with each other.‎ Methods: Achieving these goals in Sepahan Cement Company (SCC) is pursued in two phases. First, the supply chain ‎operations reference (SCOR) model is used to design an integrated framework for ‎evaluating the sustainable performance of the cement supply chain (CSC). Second, interpretive-structural modeling (ISM) and MICMAC analysis are used to analyze the position and role ‎of sustainable performance criteria in CSC main processes.‎ Results: In total, 16 environmental criteria, 10 economic criteria, and 4 social criteria ‎were identified. The contribution of the executive processes of sourcing, manufacturing, ‎delivery, and return of the cement supply chain from these criteria were 11, 15, 7, and 6 ‎criteria, respectively. In each process, key and effective criteria that played a fundamental ‎role in promoting process sustainability were identified.‎ Conclusion: Not all SCC processes play the same role in improving various ‎aspects of sustainability (society, environment, economy). Identifying the key and ‎effective metrics of each process provides managers and policymakers with an ‎appropriate perspective on the preparation of sustainability improvement projects. Despite ‎the presence of economic criteria in all four executive processes of the cement supply ‎chain, the effectiveness of these criteria is not the same in all processes. Therefore, the ‎preferences of decision-makers can be different regarding the prioritization of projects to improve the ‎sustainability of SCC.