List of Articles Venaii

• Open Access Article
  • Abstract Page
  • Full-Text
  
  1 - Extensive ecotourism modeling by using GIS (Case study: Venaii, Boroujerd)
  Ali Ariapour Moslem Hadidi Elahe Karami Golnaz Kheradmand Masoud Goudarzi
  The aim of this study was extensive ecotourism modeling in the Venaii Basin of Boroujerd County in Lorestan province. Also the determination of suitability classes, delete of barriers to the suitability and the priority of affecting factors on suitability were second ai More

  The aim of this study was extensive ecotourism modeling in the Venaii Basin of Boroujerd County in Lorestan province. Also the determination of suitability classes, delete of barriers to the suitability and the priority of affecting factors on suitability were second aims. This study was conducted in 2015 based on literature, questioner and field data. At the first affecting factors on ecotourism ware ranked by Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) according to standard questionnaire, tourism comments, expert view points and literature review. Then incorporated and combined spatial and attribute layers corresponding to each factor such as topographic maps, satellite images, sharing date by county officials and basic maps in ArcGIS®9.3 software. Investigated factors fall into two main categories physical and non-physical. Totally 12 factors investigated according to kind of extensive ecotourism and then prepared maps based on priority. Results show that two main factors have equal value based on AHP method. Additionally, results pointed out that in physical factors, soil sensitive is the most important factor and road accessibility is less significant with 0.22 and 0.01 ranks respectively. Inconsistency was 0.4 that show logic comparatives. There was no difference priority between plant and animal diversity and land uses in non-physical factors in which show had equal indexes. Regions categorized into three sections based on the FAO method from very suit (S1) to low suit (S3). In addition, this study result appears practically useful for the development of tourism facilities and ecotourism resource utilization: First, for the highly suitable areas with S1 class (2150 ha, 36.66%), most of which are located in the mountain areas characterized by slopes and height. Low suitable in some part of the area which located on hills and low height was about 1235 ha (21.07%). Because of extensive ecotourism there was no any limitation to develop. Overall must attend that village development and decrease of plant cover cause negative effect on diversity and the degradation of nature and also region pollution. This unusual development cause less potential ecotourism in the future that must decision making. On the other hand, if create a shelter in suite location middle of the way to pick it will encourage to climbing. Manuscript profile