Leveling of 15 Districts in Isfahan Based on Sports Tourism Infrastructure Using TOPSIS Model

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Received: 2016-03-09 Accepted : 2016-03-09 Published : 2016-02-20

Keywords: sports tourism, sports infrastructure, leveling, the regions of fifteen, model TOPSIS,

Abstract :

Sports Tourism is also considered as a part of tourism that is created as a combination of sport and tourism, and is growing at a rapid rate and becoming a major and independent industry. One of the problems of the tourism in Iran, including Isfahan, is the imbalance in space organization and lack of hierarchy based on the interaction between tourism areas. Leveling of tourism infrastructure in different areas of a city and a balanced distribution of infrastructure and moderating inequality in different areas are of the important tourism development activities. The purpose of this study was to level 15 districts in Isfahan regarding sport tourism infrastructure. The study was descriptive for data collection and for analysis of statistics Isfahan TOPSIS model was used. The findings showed that the fourteen, thirteen and fifteen, were in the first three levels while nine, four and six were located in the last three levels of sport tourism infrastructure. The results of the findings showed that Isfahan is deprived in terms of sports infrastructure.