Prioritizing tourism destination infrastructure of Kermanshah province with the GIS and SAW technique

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

Hossein Mousazadeh ¹ , Parisa Mohammadpour ² , Mehdi Khodadad ³ , Ebrahim Moammeri ⁴

1 - Ph.D. student, Department of Regional Science, Eotvos Lorand University, Faculty of science, Budapest, Hungary
2 - Assistant Professor of research, Natural resources research, Agricultural and natural resources research center of Gilan Province
3 - M.A. of Geography and Rural Planning, University of Golestan, Gorgan, Iran.
4 - M.A. of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Golestan, Gorgan, Iran

Received: 2017-12-18 Accepted : 2017-12-18 Published : 2015-09-01

Keywords: Arc GIS, tourism infrastructure, Kermanshah province, simple average weighting technique,

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