Identification of factors influencing tourism industry development with cultural approach and their prioritization with AHP method (case study: Iran country)

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

Ali  Khosravi Moghddam ¹ (Ph.D. student, Firoozkooh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh ,Iran)
Abdullah  Zandi Far ² (Ph.D. student, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran)
Fatemeh  Barzegar Farsiani ³ (Student of payame Noor University, shahriar, Iran)

Received: 2018-09-02 Accepted : 2018-09-02 Published : 2018-03-01

Keywords: Economic, Tourism, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), organizational, Policy and institutional, Social and cultural,

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