Investigating the Challenges and Opportunities Affecting Tourism Using SWOT and QPSM Techniques (The Case Study of Galugah District)

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

Zainab Karkehabadi ¹ , Khezer Shamsi ²

1 - Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planningat, Semnan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Semnan, Iran
2 - Ph.D. in Geography and Urban Planning

Received: 2018-05-08 Accepted : 2018-05-08 Published : 2017-09-01

Keywords: SWOT, Tourism, Method, QSPM,

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