Land suitability assessment using ANP in a GIS environment for Tourism Development Site (Case study: Lavasan-e Kuchak Rural District, Tehran province, Iran)

Subject Areas : Geography and tourism planning, geography and urban planning, urban planning, architecture, geography and rural planning, political geography

Elham  Eftekhari ¹ (Ph.D. Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran and faculty members of Geography, payame noor University, Tehran, Iran)
Masoud  Mahdavi ² (Professor of Geography, Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2020-01-27 Accepted : 2020-01-27 Published : 2019-12-01

Keywords: Geographical Information System (GIS), ANP, tourism development, Site Selection, Lavasan-e Kuchak Rural District,

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