On the Enjoyment Level Measurement of Markazi Province Cities in terms of Tourism Infrastructures

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

sh. isalou ^{1 *} , A. khaksari rafsanjani ² , M. saidi rad ³

1 - M.A Student in Urbanism, Allameh-e-Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
2 - استاد گروه شهرسازی ، دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی، تهران، ایران
3 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی روستایی، دانشگاه شهید بهشتی، تهران، ایران

Received: 2016-07-05 Accepted : 2017-01-19 Published : 2017-12-21

Keywords: Markazi province, tourism infrastructure, Saw-Topsis, Enjoyment Level,

Abstract :

Todays, tourism is considered as the most important income generating activities, specially in order to reduce dependence on oil in the country and in some recent decades, has attracted the attention of many scholars, planners, and planners in various fields of science to the development and implementation of the industry's expansion plans. Among the topics and programs that require special attention to provide tourists satisfaction and boost the tourism market of the country is the topic of tourism infrastructure. This study was conducted to determine the distribution of tourism infrastructure in Markazi province and ranking of cities in terms of level of utilization using Topsis-Saw technique and to determine the distribution of infrastructure, Pearsonian's Skewness Coefficient was used. The present study was descriptive-analytic and the required data had been gathered by documentary and library method. The results show that counties Arak, Saveh and Khomein and also, counties Khandab and Farahan had the first and the last grades, respectively. Also, the results of using Pearsonian's Skewness Coefficient showed the imbalance and weakness of the cities of the province in terms of having a tourism infrastructure. Therefore, prioritizing the cities of this province in terms of criteria such as tourism potential, sphere of influence, developmental stimulus regions, and incentive to invest in order to optimize the distribution of infrastructure is imperative to review and take serious action which had to be reviewed and taken action seriously in development and logistics documents of the Markazi province.  

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