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Future study is an approach that contributes the active directors in tourism field to prepare the ground to import smartening technologies e.g., Internet of Things (IoT) in tourism by long term planning and to help its growth and development. The present study aims to predict and identify the foremost effective factors and prepare Plausible and favorable futures in line with implementation of IoT to smarten tourism destinations at Fars province in Iran. The Fars Province is assumed as one of Iranian tourism poles. Data were collected in this study using methodologies of systematic review of literature, interview and questionnaire. Data were analyzed by the aid of Scenario Wizard and MICMAC software. The MICMAC results showed that 14 key variables played the main role in IoT implementation for smartening of tourism destination at Fars Province. In this study, two strong scenarios in the forward conditions are imagined, among which one scenario of promising and favorable conditions, and another scenario of intermediate and critical conditions are shown.