Analysis effective factors on development of sustainable tourism in Sarvabad town using TOPSIS model

Document Type : Research Paper

Abstract

Introduction and Objective: Recently tourism has become one of the requirement in human being life and the most important and professional industry service in the world. Therefore it provides us these opportunities to be hopeful in using advantageous of tourism.  But this major can be possible when we consider effective factors on planning and management strategy.
Because of different potentialities in tourism such as variety of natural attractive places and located Uraman-Takht in this region,   Sarvabad is the most interesting area in Kurdistan province. Therefore based on it's special geography position and different potentialities in attracting tourist, it is easy to have sustainable development and increase the positive abilities of tourism.  But for this we need to have a professional   management and planning for tourism.
Method: Our method in this research is descriptive and analysis and for determining the effective factors on development sustainable tourism we use phase analysis of TOPSIS.  Based on these method proper factors are those that have a minimum distance from ideal positive solution and have a maximum distance from ideal negative solution.  
Findings: From our analysis the most effective factor on sustainable development tourism in Sarvabad is improving state of infrastructure.  This area is full of interesting places but unfortunately due to not having suitable infrastructure and topography situation it is not easy to visit them.
Results: We found that some places such as Uraman-Tahkt has different interesting touristic places but owing to have a weak infrastructure it is in lower order and it shows that having a special attention on infrastructure is mandatory

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