In all Uppersia trips, there is a balance between visiting monuments and attraction and meeting locals and having interaction with the community. To ensure this we have allocated some time during the tour that the interaction happens with the help of your tour guides and tour leaders and and also have allocated some free time so that you can have your own experience and chance of meeting locals.
Regarding the resources, as all the process of helping traveler coming to Iran and also running the tours are done by locals you can be assured that the locals are benefited from you trip. For our handling of the tours in Iran we always do our best to direct the opportunities to the local people that are in the domain of the tour operation.