The fourth tourism conference on sustainable development and scientific and educational tourism was held at Isfahan University of Technology on February 20, 2022

Scientific lectures were delivered on the role of scientific and educational tourism in sustainable tourism development, scientific tourism diplomacy, the role and importance of factors in sustainable tourism, ecotourism, strategies for the development and protection of nature and cultural heritage, necessities and capacities of scientific and educational tourism in historical attractions, the role of experience economy in entrepreneurship of local communities, recreation and education in tourism, and planning and using values and functions of wetlands. The Director-General of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism of Isfahan Province participated and presented a lecture at the conference.

This meeting which is considered as part of the social responsibility of IUT, the top university in the central region of Iran, dealt with scientific and educational tourism, and this mission of scientific tourism for Isfahan is given to the IUT Department of Natural Resources Engineering.

In this regard, two scientific lectures from IUT entitled "Scientific Diplomacy and Tourism" by Prof. Mohammad Javad Omidi, Acting President for IUT International Affairs, and "Ecotourism: A Strategy for Development and Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage" by Prof. Mahmoud Reza Homami, faculty member of IUT Natural Resources Department, were presented at the conference.